Military History Lectures Delivered At Trinity College Cambridge
Military History Lectures Delivered At Trinity College Cambridge
Fortescue John William
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These were costly little operations, for the Burmese threw up stockades with astonishing skill and swiftness, and these required to be stormed. On several occa- sions attacks upon them were repulsed with loss. Having arrived at the beginning of the rainy season in order to have plenty of water to ascend the river, the British had to endure all the misery and un- healthiness of the rains, aggravated by bad food, with the result that sickness made havoc of the troops and 184 MILITARY HISTORY [lec...t. reduced their effective numbers at one moment to three thousand men. The Burmese closed in upon them in force; but in December, 1824, were driven back by a general attack upon their whole line. When the news of the situation reached Calcutta the Government sent out two additional expeditions to invade the province of Ava overland, one from Manipur, the other from Chittagong. The first route was found impracticable, owing to the density of the forest ; the second force, eleven thousand strong, advanced upon Aracan and captured it, but failed, from neglect of sound geographical infor- mation, to find a way to the army on the Irrawadi, which it had been intended to join, and remained helpless and stationary.
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