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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1827 Original Publisher: John Murray Subjects: Burmese War, 1824-1826 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. STATE AND POSITION OP THE BURMESE FORCES AT THE PERIOD OF OUR LANDING IN PEGU, AND EXERTIONS OF THE COURT OF AVA IN CAXLING OUT THE MILITARY RESOURCES OF THE COUNTRY FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH THE BURMESE TROOPS. That the Court of Ava had been for many months preparing for a rupture with the government of India, the tone and conduct of the governors of Arracan and the provinces lying contiguous to our frontier, and the assemblage of troops in that quarter, afford the strongest evidence; offensive warfare was obviously intended. But the invasion of their own frontiers, more especially of the distant coasts of Pegu and Tenasserim, seems to have been wholly overlooked in their warlike preparations. During the preceding cold season, while the British troops occupied the southern parts of the Chittagong district, considerable bodies of Burmese had crossed the Arracan mountains; and although they at that time did not venture to show themselves in force upon our frontier, reports were industriously circulated by them, that, unless our claim upon the island of Shaporee was speedily relinquished, an army of thirty thousand men would invade Bengal. On the return of the sickly season in March and April, our troops were compelled to withdraw from the lower parts of the district, leaving at Ramoo, a post about sixty miles to the southward of Chittagong, only a small force, consisting of eight weak companies of Sepoys of the line ; a provincial battalion, and a levy of five or six hundred armed Mugs, to watch the motions of the enemy, who fr...
