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	Degenerate - Slow Death Machine 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Alaungpaya thus came to agreement with the British, who were then fighting the French across a world-wide front, from the Mississippi to the Ganges.
		It was the first setback for Alaungpaya's army, and it is at this moment that, if such a moment exists, the dynamic turn toward the hereditary madness of the Burmese kings might be identified.
		Alaungpaya was wounded by an arrow and was unable to continue the march with his troops.
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	Alaungpaya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alaungpaya (Burmese: အလောင္‌းဘုရား) or Alaung Mintaya (Burmese: အလောင္‌းမင္‌းတရား, lit.
		Alaungpaya, however, of a more independent spirit, not only contrived to regain possession of his village, but was able to defeat a body of Peguan troops that had been sent on a punitive expedition.
		Alaungpaya was succeeded by his eldest son, Naungdawgyi (1760-1763).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alaungpaya (560 words)

	Mon and Burman War
		But Alaungpaya wanted a quid pro quo; the Mons had the aid of the French vessels that were in the port of Syriam, and under their protection might come up the River and attack Dagon; he therefore needed guns.
		Alaungpaya, having no desire to see his enemies strengthened by the accession of the English vessel, sent his son to explain that the demand was made under the apprehension that it was the custom at Syriam to land all arms, but that if it was not the custom the demand would not be persisted in.
		Alaungpaya was no doubt disappointed, but he could not afford to alienate the English at the moment, especially as the Negrais staff seemed well-disposed and sent him at this juncture a dozen muskets and some powder as a foretaste of the heavy guns which were to come later.
	mrc-usa.org /yangon.htm (2383 words)

	Myanmar History
		He was the one who unified Myanmar and founded the Alaungpaya, or Konbaung, dynasty, which held power until the British annexed Upper (northern) Myanmar on Jan. 1, 1886.
		Of humble origins, Alaungpaya was a village headman from the small town of Moksobomyo (present-day Shwebo), north of Inwa, the Myanmar capital, when in April 1752 Binnya Dala, the Mon king of Bago, captured Inwa and put an end to Myanmar's ruling Taungoo dynasty.
		Alaungpaya established effective control over the whole area previously under the rule of the Taungoo dynasty.
	www.myanmars.net /myanmar-history/king-alaungpaya.htm (355 words)

	National Heroes - Myanmar (Burma) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Of humble origins, Alaungpaya was a village headman from the small town of Moksobomyo (present-day Shwebo), north of Ava, the Myanmar capital, when in April 1752 Binnya Dala, the Mon king of Pegu, captured Ava and put an end to Myanmar's ruling Toungoo dynasty.
		A son of Alaungpaya (reigned 1752-60), the founder of the dynasty, Bodawpaya came to power after deposing and executing his grandnephew Maung Maung.
		Saya San was a native of Shwebo, a centre of nationalist-monarchist sentiment in north-central Myanmar that was the birthplace of the Konbaung (or Alaungpaya) dynasty, which controlled Myanmar from 1752 until the British annexation in 1886.
	www.myanmars.net /NEWVER/history/hero.htm (4683 words)

	Degenerate - Slow Death Machine 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		There was a terrible war of succession in Burma, the details of which are not clear.
		Alaungpaya's heir was said to have gone mad when hearing of his father's death.
		Finally, in 1764 the third king of the Alaungpaya dynasty, Hsinbyushin, became strong enough to build on his grandfather's efforts.
	www.diacritica.com /degenerate/2/alaungpaya2.html (334 words)

	Vacation in Burma with Asian Vacations - Myanmar History
		Alaungpaya, a local official from the nearby town of Shwebo, refused to swear allegiance to the Mons and with the help of a large following he recaptured Ava in 1753.
		Alaungpaya's second son, Hsinbyushin, came to the throne after a short reign by his elder brother, Naungdawgyi (1760-1763).
		Alaungpaya conquered Rahkine, extending his border all the way to the Bengal border, until the British Raj in nearby India decided that he had come too close for their comfort.
	www.vacationsinburma.com /history.html (7636 words)

	Alaungpaya - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Alaungpaya, 1711-60, Burmese king, founder of the Konbaung dynasty, which ruled until 1885.
		His name, also given as Alompra, means "the coming Buddha." The son of a village headman, he rallied the Burmese and led them against their Mons rulers.
		Pursuing the Mons, he invaded Siam but was wounded in a siege of Ayuthia and died while returning to Myanmar.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-alaungpa.html (258 words)

	The British Conquest of Burma: The First Anglo-Burmese War
		Alaungpaya, who initiated the last Burmese dynasty, defeated the Mons in 1752 as part of continued Burmese expansion that had also seen a number of bloody struggles with Siam to the east.
		The third son and successor of Alaungpaya was Bodawpaya, although he ruled under a variety of names.
		Bodawpaya's first actions were to eliminate any possible rivals to the throne in a succession of bloodbaths and the extermination of rebels to the extent of killing every living person, animal or plant in a region suspected of harbouring rebels.
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		In 1753, a local Burmese official of the small town of Shwebo, about 100 kilometers north of Ava, by the name of Alaungpaya (according to other sources: Alaungsaya) starts a revolt against the reign of the Mon in Ava.
		But during the siege Alaungpaya is injured and dies on the retreat to Myanmar.
		In 1782 Alaungpaya's fifth son, Bodawpaya becomes King of the Burmese.
	www.dpns.org /aboutdpns/history/konbaung.html (215 words)

	Bo-Tree Travel Co., Ltd., Yangon, Myanmar - customized trips and eco-tours to Myanmar (Burma)
		Its chief Alaungpaya managed to drive the Mon away from the Burmese heartland and in the ensuing campaign he conquered the arch enemy’s land.
		One of Alaungpaya’s most important victories was the conquest of the village of Dagon, home to the majestic Shwedagon pagoda.
		Alaungpaya's successors expanded the empire to the best of their abilities.
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	A B S D O - Vision - Abstract Communities
		For example, the Burman King Alaungpaya, of the Konbaung Dynasty (1752-1886 AD), often referred to himself as Sin Phu Shin or “Lord of the White Elephant” and Ti Pyu Saun Min or “Ruler of all Umbrella Bearing Chiefs”.
		Burma’s administrative structure was fortified under Alaungpaya, as local cultural diversity was lost amid a tightening and centralising of executive and judicial power.
		Not surprisingly, King Bodawpaya, the fifth son of Alaungpaya, was the longest ruling Burmese king and presided over the Burmese empire at what was considered to be its height.
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	Myanmar Tourism Services Co, Ltd.
		King Alaungpaya renamed it as Yangon, meaning the City of the End of Strife, meaning Peaceful City.
		Actually, he was officially a trade representative for Rakhine (Arakan), but he ran his own little kingdom in Thanlyin, siding with the Mon in their struggle against the Burmese.
		In the year 1599, he occupied Bago, but in 1613, the Bama King Alaungpaya besieged Thanlyin and impaled him and King Natshin Naung to death.
	www.myanmartourismservices.com /yangon.htm (998 words)

	Southeast Asian History-Burma and Siam
		In the same year a popular local leader, Alaungpaya, rose up and gained control of Upper Burma and the Shan states.
		Where Alaungpaya failed his son Hsinbyushin (1763-76) was dreadfully successful.
		After putting down a rebellion in Chiangmai, he invaded Siam with three armies: one followed the traditional invasion route, the Three Pagodas Pass; one came from Chiangmai, and one came from the Malay peninsula.
	www.guidetothailand.com /thailand-history/burma_siam.htm (1094 words)

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		According to Burmese chronicles, after the decline of Hongsawady, Aungzeya, who was believed to be inspired by the good nats (spirits), found himself the leader of a national movement.
		Aungzeya, with support from his people, crowned himself Alaungpaya, which means the great king or ?embryo Buddha?.
		Alaungpaya?s last campaign was the invasion of Ayutthaya in April 1760.
	www.burmanet.org /bnn_archives/2003/20031121.txt (8201 words)

	History of Myanmar \| AsiaExplorers
		1753: Alaungpaya, an official from the town of Shwebo, ignited a revolt against the Mons and succeeded in conquering Ava.
		(ref: Ayutthaya history #3) During the siege, Alaungpaya was injured and died, forcing a Burmese retreat.
		Yangon was a ROYAL CAPITAL during the reign of King Alaungpaya and it FOREVER stay that way.
	www.asiaexplorers.com /myanmar/history.htm (1296 words)

	All about Myanmar(Burma)
		The second Myanmar Empire with its capital in Bago was created in the middle of the 16th century by King Bayinnaung.
		Third and last Myanmar Empire founded by King Alaungpaya in 1752 and had a number of capitals, the last being Mandalay.
		In the later years of the Empire, Myanmar was annexed by the British in three stages, in 1825, 1852, 1885 and became a British colony.
	www.yadanabon.com /all_about_myanmar.htm (1217 words)

	Journeys Myanmar Historical Timeline
		Two years later he executed the last king of the Toungoo dynasty, which had been founded in 1486.Binnya Dala was eventually deposed by Alaungpaya, the founder of the Myanmarn Alaungpaya dynasty, who captured Pegu in 1757.
		Alaungpaya established effective control over the whole area previously under the rule of the Toungoo dynasty.Because the French had allied themselves with the Mon, Alaungpaya was eager to gain British support.
		As a result of his defeat, the provinces of Arakan and Tenasserim were lost to the British.Bagyidaw was the grandson of King Bodawpaya, who had narrowly avoided war with the British over the frontier between Bengal and Arakan.
	www.journeysmyanmar.com /historical_timeline.htm (4078 words)

	Yangon
		Nevertheless, even in the earliest times of Burmese history the place was of considerable importance, because Dagon was home to the Shwedagon Pagoda, which has not only for centuries, but for millennia, been an important religious location.
		In 1755 Dagon was conquered by King Alaungpaya, who renamed the town to Yangon, which translates "The End of Stirfe".
		In 1824, during the first Anglo-Myanmar war, Yangon was shortly occupied by the British, but was cleared again soon after.
	www.myanmar-image.com /yangon/history (242 words)

	OpinionEditorials.com — “Where have all the Generals gone?” Burma’s By-Gone Days of Historic Military Courage - ...
		He rose to the position of General, and was instrumental in the expansion of the Burmese Konbaung Dynasty.
		King Alaungpaya c.1752-1760 was the founder of the Konbaung (heaven’s platform) dynasty.
		Alaungpaya, a man of humble origins, but a great leader and his successors, waged wars against the fractured provinces surrounding them, and modern Burma’s borders are a result of that expansion policy of the Konbuang dynasty.
	www.opinioneditorials.com /freedomwriters/scarney_20060831.html (1395 words)

	Yangon - Myanmar, Myanmar Travel Information 2006
		Yangon was founded by King Alaungpaya on the site of a small settlement called Dagon when he conquered Lower Myanmar in 1755.
		Alaungpaya's conquest of lower Myanmar is the second most important event in the history of Dagon.
		May 1775 marks the beginning of the modern town when Alaungpaya, to commemorate his victory, changed its name from Dagon to Yangon, "Enmity Exhausted."
	myanmartravelinformation.com /index-yangon.htm (1298 words)

	History-4
		It ruled for four hundred years and by the time of its destruction by an envious and jealous invading army from Burma by King Alaungpaya's son Hsinbyushin in 1767, had become one of the most cosmopolitan cities in Asia, with a population of more than a million people and thousands of imposing temples and palaces.
		In 1351 a Thai prince named U Thong ('Golden Cradle') founded the city of Ayutthaya on a strategic site at the confluence of the Pasak and the Chao Phraya Rivers and was anointed king of a new Thai state, taking the regal name of Ramathibodi.
		In 1752 Alaungpaya, a Burman leader from Shwebo, gained recognition as king of Ava and founded the Konbaung dynasty, In 1757 he captured Pegu and in 1760 launched his first attack against Siam.
	www.usmta.com /history-4.htm (2416 words)

	Burmese Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Southerners were Alaungpaya, a local official of Shwebo conquered the Mons, Alaungpaya attacked Ayutthaya kingdom.
		Bodawpaya, Alaungpaya's 5th son, came to the throne in [1782 - 1819] at the age of 75 and was succeeded by King Bagyidaw.
		The Maharajah of Manipur (a princely state in the W hills to the S of Nagaland) who previously paid tribute to the Burmese crown, did not attend Bagyidaw's coronation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Burmese_Kingdom (1562 words)

	Your reliable tour operator in Myanmar, Oriental Comet Travels
		Yangon was founded by King Alaungpaya on the site of a small town called Dagon when he conquered lower Myanmar in 1755.
		Thanlyin continued as a busy port until it was destroyed by the Myanmar King Alaungpaya in 1756.
		After visiting a native market of Thanlyin, not far from the town a road leads to a large Golden Kyaik-khauk Pagoda atop a hillock to the north of the road.
	www.orientalcomet.com /yangon.html (1154 words)

	JOINT-STATEMENT ON 246TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FALLEN DAY
		The last Mon independent kingdom was invaded and occupied by the Burman on the 8th waning day of the second month of year 1119 Mon/Burmese lunar calendar (Christian Era 1757).
		After the annexation of the kingdom, the Burman king, Alaungpaya, brutally killed tens of thousands of innocent Mon people including many women, children and over 3000 Mon Buddhist monks.
		On this grievous day, we, Mon people around the world, hold the memorial ceremony in remembrance of our ancestors who were killed by the cruel Burman king, Alaungpaya.
	www.ibiblio.org /obl/docs/Joint-statement2003-05-23.htm (461 words)

	Burma(Myanmar) History \| iExplore.com
		Following the demise of the Mongol empire at the end of the 14th century, Burma was carved up between warring tribes, with Siam (Thailand) the dominant force in the region, until the Tanugoo dynasty defeated Siam and reunified the country in the mid-16th century.
		By the mid-18th century, a new dynasty had been established under King Alaungpaya with its capital in Yangon but the country once again disintegrated as the Hmon tribes broke away to create their own kingdoms.
		In 1824, the British, driven by imperial ambitions and goaded by repeated border clashes, annexed Burma as part of British India.
	www.iexplore.com /dmap/Burma(Myanmar)/History (1218 words)

	Political and Economic History of Myanmar (Burma)
		This pagoda had been a purely religious site long before the town of Dagon was declared there by the Mon king in the early 1400s.
		The Burman king Alaungpaya conquered the Mons kingdom on the Lower Irrawaddy in 1755 and renamed the town at the site Yangon, which means end of war strife in Burmese.
		King Alaungpaya wanted to develop Yangon as a port to replace the port of Syriam.
	www2.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/burma.htm (2225 words)

	Myanmar Travel Hein Si Int'l Travels & Tours
		Always green with lush tropical trees, shady parks and beautiful lakes, Yangon is known as the "Garden City of the East".
		The settlement first came into prominence in the mid-1750s when King Alaungpaya, or Alompra, founder of the last dynasty of Burmese kings, chose the site as the administrative capital of Lower Myanmar.
		It began to develop as a modern community in the late 19th century after coming under British rule at the conclusion of the Second Anglo-Burmese War in 1852.
	www.heinsi.com /eng/yangon_the_south.htm (664 words)

	World history and events in 1752
		The invasion of Burma by the king of Pegu gives Alaungpaya the opportunity of attaining to the highest distinction
		Officially New Years day for the 1st time, until now the year had begun 25th March
		Alaungpaya commands a force which repels the invading Peguan troops from Ava
	www.badley.info /history/1752.year.html (144 words)

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