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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 August 2009
By the middle of the nineteenth century, Britain had established a firm foothold in Burma. As a result of the Second Anglo-Burmese War which broke out in 1852, Britain acquired the delta area of the country's most important river, the Irrawaddy. This, added to what she had previously gained from the First Anglo-Burmese War of 1824, had placed under her control, the entire Burmese seaboard.
1. British Burma Administration Reports, 1852–1862.
2. For Anglo-Burmese relations directly after the Second Anglo-Burmese War, see ProfessorHall, D.G.E.'s The Dalhousie-Phayre Correspondence, 1852–1856.Google Scholar
3. A detailed study of the First British Residency in Upper Burma, will be found in Professor W. S. Desai's History of the British Residency in Burma, 1826–1840.
4. Ma, Thaung, “British Interest in Trans-Burma Trade Routes to China, 1826–1876,” unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, London University, 12 1954.Google Scholar
5. Thaung, Blackmore, “Advent of Steamships in the Inland Waters of Burma and the Formation of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company,”Google Scholar a paper contributed to International Conference on Asian History, University of Hong Kong, 1964.
6. Ma, Thaung, Thesis p. 236Google Scholar; Dorothy, Woodman, The Making of Burma, pp. 176–7.Google Scholar
7. 1867 Parliamentary Papers. Despatch from Phayre in Rangoon to the Governor-General in Calcutta, d/ August 14, 1866.
8. What Sladen described in his official reports as temporary palace was in fact the king's summer palace.
9. The men had indulged in an orgiastic bout before their raid. Konebaungset Maha Yazawindawgyi (in Burmese) p. 1448Google Scholar. Their drunkenness made an impact on Sladen when he saw them in the temporary palace.
10. 1867 P.P., Sladen's report to the Chief Commissioner, d/ Aug. 22, 1866.
11. Ibid., Phayre's despatch to the Governor-General, d/ Aug. 14, 1866.
12. Ibid., Sladen's report, d/ Aug. 11, 1866.
13. Description of the royal palace within the city, will be found in Blackmore, Thaung's, “The Founding of the City of Mandalay by King Mindon,” Journal of Oriental Studies, Vol. V, Nos. 1–2, 1959/1960Google Scholar, University of Hong Kong.
14. Elated by their success at the Hluttaw, Prince Myingondaing shouted, “Aung daw mu byi” (We've conquered we've done it) O'Connor., Scott, V. C., Mandalay and other cities of the past in Burma, p. 54.Google Scholar
15. 1867 P.P., Sladen's report, d/Aug. 11, 1866.
16. K.B.S. (in Burmese) p. 1449.
17. 1867 P.P., Phayre's despatch, d/Aug. 14, 1866.
18. 1867 P.P., Sladen's report, d/Aug. 11, 1866.
19. 1866 India Political & Foreign Proceedings Consultation Oct. 98. d/Sept. 5. 1866.
20. 1866 I.P.F., Con. Oct. 97.
21. 1866 I.P.P., Con. Oct. 97.
22. 1866 I.P.F., Con. Oct. 99.
23. 1867 P.P., Sladen's report, d/Aug. 22, 1866.
24. 1867 P.P., Sladen's report, d/Aug. 11, 1866.
25. Ibid., Phayre's report to the Governor-General, d/Aug. 14, 1866.
26. 1866 I.P.F., Cons. Oct. 51–4; K.BS. (in Burmese) pp. 1455–6.
