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over a number of minor issues related to the previous treaty. The Burmese immediately made concessions including the removal of a governor whom the British had made their
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King Mindon tried to modernise the Burmese state and economy to ensure its independence, and he established a new capital at
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with the intention to use it as a bargaining chip in future negotiations with either Burma or
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had consequences along its frontiers. As those frontiers moved ever closer to the
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The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Vol. 2, Part 1: From c.1800 to the 1930s
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The Anglo-Burmese Wars were an armed conflict between two expanding empires, the
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Empires in Collision: Anglo-Burmese Relations in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
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Pagoda War: Lord Dufferin and the Fall of the Kingdom of Ava, 1885-186O
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Photograph of surrender of the Burmese Army, 3rd Anglo-Burmese War
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The Stricken Peacock: Anglo-Burmese Relations 1752–1948
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Index

Anglo-Burmese wars
European colonisation of Southeast Asia

5 March 1824
29 November 1885
Burma
East Bengal
Assam
Manipur
Cachar
Jaintia
Konbaung dynasty
British Burma
Burmese resistance
British Burma
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
British Empire
East India Company
India
Siam
Burma
Shan States
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Henry Godwin
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Garnet Wolseley
British Raj
Harry Prendergast
East India Company
Lord Amherst

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