THE DEFEAT OF AVA : THE FIRST ANGLO BURMESE WAR OF 1824-26

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ISBN 10: 8131305449 / ISBN 13: 9788131305447

Published by APH Pub. Corp., 2009

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New Delhi 2009, 446 pp., 3 pp. maps, 14 pp. illus. in col., 215 x 300 mm Weight 1.200 Kgs. Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references. The First Anglo-Burmese War (5 March 1824-24 February 1826) was the first of three wars fought between the British and Burmese Empires in the 19th century. The war, which began primarily over the control of north-eastern India, ended in a decisive British victory, giving the British total control of Assam, Manipur, Cachar and Jaintia as well as Arakan and Tenasserim. The Burmese were also forced to pay an indemnity of one million pounds sterling, and sign a commercial treaty. The war was the longest and most expensive war in British Indian history. Fifteen thousand European and Indian soldiers died, together with an unknown number of Burmese army and civilian casualties. The campaign, the most poorly managed one in British military history, cost the British five million pounds sterling (roughly 18.5 billion in 2006 US dollars) to 13 million pounds sterling (roughly 48.1 billion in 2006 US dollars) that led to a severe economic crisis in British India in 1833. For the Burmese, it was the beginning of the end of their independence. The Third Burmese Empire, for a brief moment the terror of British India, was crippled and no longer a threat to the eastern frontier of British India. The Burmese would be crushed for years to come by repaying the large indemnity of one million pounds (then US$5 million), a large sum even in Europe of that time. The British would make two more wars against a much more weakened Burma, and swallow up the entire country by 1885.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE DEFEAT OF AVA : THE FIRST ANGLO BURMESE WAR OF 1824-26
• Publisher: APH Pub. Corp.
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8131305449
• ISBN 13: 9788131305447
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

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Defeat of Ava, The First Anglo-Burmese War 1824-26, The