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	Myanmar History
		The first identifiable civilization is that of the Mon.
		A new generation of Burmese leaders arose in the early twentieth century from amongst the educated classes that were permitted to go to London to study law.
		Burmese nationalists saw the outbreak of World War II as an opportunity to extort concessions from the British in exchange for support in the war effort, but the British would have none of it, issuing an arrest warrant for Aung San, who escaped to China.
	www.myanmartravelinformation.com /mti-myanmar-history (2200 words)

	Medals As War Decorations - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		To those, however, who were already in possession of the first China medal the second medal was not awarded, they receiving a clasp China 1842 to go on their original medal, together of course with the clasps to which their services in the second war had entitled them.
		The first China medal was the first to be issued with the effigy of Queen Victoria upoii it.
		The first issue of the medal by the Crown was authorized April 15, 1859, with the clasps " North-West Frontier " and " Umbeyla," the former covering various expeditions between 1849 and 1863, the latter the hard-fought Umbeyla Campaign of the latter mentioned year.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Medals_As_War_Decorations (12989 words)

	The First Burmese War
		War with Burma was formally declared on the March 5, 1824.
		This interval was employed by Sir A. Campbell in subduing the Burmese provinces of Tavoy and Mergui, and the whole coast of Tenasserim.
		The war was thus brought to a successful termination, and the British army evacuated the country.
	www.indhistory.com /anglo-burmese-war-1.html (1067 words)

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		While the Burmese economy grew, all the power and wealth was in the hands of several British firms and the Burmese people did not reap the rewards.
		A new generation of Burmese leaders arose in the early twentieth century from amongst the educated classes that were permitted to go to London to study law.
		Burmese nationalists saw the outbreak of World War II as an opportunity to extort concessions from the British in exchange for support in the war effort, but the British would have none of it, issuing an arrest warrant for Aung San, who escaped to China.
	webpages.charter.net /hers/index_files/Page323.htm (2278 words)

	First Burmese War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was the first of the three wars fought between Burma and the British Empire during the 19
		By 1822, the Burmese army was effectively in control of Assam and the same problems of refugees and rebels operating in the border areas as had occurred with Arakan were now repeated in Assam.
		This interval was employed by Campbell in subduing the Burmese provinces of Tavoy and Mergui, and the whole coast of Tenasserim.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_Burmese_War (2100 words)

	Myanmar - MSN Encarta
		In 1752 Alaungpaya founded the Konbaung dynasty by restoring Burmese rule first at Ava and later in the delta.
		When the Japanese invaded Myanmar in 1942, during World War II, the BIA accompanied the Japanese troops, fighting few battles but swelling their membership as a political movement in military garb.
		The military leaders formed the Burmese Socialist Program Party and nationalized the economy through a plan called the “Burmese Way to Socialism.” Students protesting in the early months of the revolutionary government were shot with machine guns and the Yangon University Student Union building, where the Thakin movement had been launched decades before, was dynamited.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761574495_9/Myanmar.html (1717 words)

	The Wargamer - 1000 Years of War in Review
		First Opium war between Britain and China (1839-42), ending in the cessation of Hong Kong to Britain.
		Anglo-Chinese war in 1856, the Royal Navy destroys the Chinese fleet in 1857, with British and French troops occupying Canton.
		Pacific War in 1880 as Chile declares war on Peru and Bolivia.
	www.wargamer.com /articles/1000y/1000y_p9.asp (1849 words)

	Myanmar Culture - Myanmar History, Myanmar
		The first identifiable civilization is that of the Mon.
		His wars stretched Myanmar to the limits of its resources, however, and both Manipur and Ayutthaya were soon independant once again.
		Some of these dissatisfied students founded a new group called Thakin (an ironic name as thakin means "master" in the Burmese language, and this was the term that students were required to use when addressing their British professors, whom they were coming to resent).
	myanmartravelinformation.com /mti-myanmar-history/index.htm (2200 words)

	War Stories
		He was what is now called the "secret war" in Laos, part of the larger war to the east in Vietnam.
		She served in England, France and Germany, and at war's end in 1945, she was assigned to the German concentration camp at Dachau.
		He may have been the first American pilot to be shot down in the invasion of North Africa.
	www.mnlegion.org /paper/html/war_stories.html (1717 words)

	The British Conquest of Burma: the Second Anglo-Burmese War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The First Anglo-Burmese War had been ended by the Treaty of Yandabo, which left the British in possession of the territories of Tenasserim and Arakan, among others, as well as the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two states.
		However, the Burmese court refused to accept the calamitous loss of face they had suffered and responded with more arrogance to the invaders: in particular, they considered the need to negotiate on equal terms with a mere viceroy to be particularly insulting.
		War was not inevitable, of course, although it did prove to be possible and, as ever, disastrous for the poor and the vulnerable especially.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/18175/112094 (560 words)

	First Britain Burma War 1823-1826
		The First Anglo-Burmese War arose from friction between Arakan in western Burma and British-held Chittagong to the north.
		In 1823 Burmese forces again crossed the frontier; and the British responded in force, with a large seaborne expedition that took Rangoon (1824) without a fight.
		During the war, Indian forces of the 47th regiment were ordered to march to Chittagong by land because caste taboo forbade high-caste men to go by sea.
	www.onwar.com /aced/data/bravo/burma1823.htm (573 words)

	DGH Reporter - HR in Burma
		By the third Anglo-Burmese war in 1885, the whole of Burma became a British colony.
		The first military coup was led by General Ne Win in 1962, and the same military government transformed itself to a quasi-civilian government in 1974, along with constitutional reforms.
		For the first time in 28 years the people of Burma had a chance to freely express their will and choose their government.
	www.dghonline.org /nl3/burma.htm (669 words)

	Society of Biblical Literature
		Like them, Burmese women have to work hard to put food on the table, working outside in the fields, factories, and offices; at the same time, they must fulfill the traditional roles of wife and mother by caring for the children, doing household chores, and pleasing their husband.
		Burmese Christian women have used the stories in the Gospels to show Jesus' concern for women, his healing of women so they could be liberated, and women who were active in Jesus' ministry.
		Burmese women in seminaries and churches feel that they are affirmed in their work through Jesus' praise of Mary for choosing the better portion.
	www.sbl-site.org /Article.aspx?ArticleId=455 (6021 words)

	Degenerate - Slow Death Machine 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Burmese ruling class were under this illusion of worldwide greatness when the seventh monarch of the Alaungpaya dynasty, King Bagyidaw, took the throne from his grandfather Bodawpaya.
		Much to the surprise of the chauvinist Burmese generals, some of the enemy fought back, and aided by the British took to the mountains after their lords surrendered.
		Yet he was hamstrung by members of the nobility and the army, who, despite receiving a severe ass-kicking from Whitey, still interpreted of the war as a fluke and the existence of the British southern Burma as a national humiliation.
	www.diacritica.com /degenerate/2/alaungpaya4.html (1225 words)

	The East India Company - Its History and Results by Karl Marx
		During the period from 1838 to 1849, in the Sikh and Afghan wars, British rule subjected to definitive possession the ethnographical, political, and military frontiers of the East Indian Continent, by the compulsory annexation of the Punjab and of Scinde.
		One of the chief causes of the war was the colonial and commercial rivalry between England and France.
		The war ended with France losing almost all her possessions in India (except five coastal towns whose fortifications she was compelled to demolish), while England considerably strengthened her colonial might.
	www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1853/07/11.htm (3700 words)

	Vol.7 No.8 October - Culture, Society and Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		For the Burmese, the sight of foreign tourists admiring the pagoda is a source of national pride.
		During the first Anglo-Burmese War in 1925, he stunned invading British forces by marching his army, which consisted mostly of foot soldiers, more than 500 miles from Burma’s western border to the Irrawaddy delta in less than a week.
		It is well known to every Burmese that Ne Win’s lucky number is nine; some have even suggested that the recent 9-9-99 movement, modeled after the 8-8-88 uprising that nearly brought an end to military rule in Burma, was doomed from the start because of this fact.
	www.irrawaddy.org /database/1999/vol7.8/culture.html (1140 words)

	Kings of Burma
		It was precariously surrounded by the Shan states in the north, Arakan in the west, and Pegu in the south, sometimes advancing, as against Arakan in 1379-1430, sometimes retreating, and sometimes dominated by China.
		These territories were not exactly integral to the Burmese state; but the Second Burmese War led to the annexation of Lower Burma, with Rangoon and Pengu, in 1853.
		After the War, the bitter feelings were reflected in the fact that independent Burma did not choose to join the British Commonwealth.
	asiarecipe.com /burmaking.html (1168 words)

	The Anglo-Burmese Wars
		War with the British broke out in 1824 after Burmese troops invaded the border areas of British India and Arakan in search of separatist Arakan rebels who had made their bases on the British side of the border.
		Seeking to force the Burmese troops retreat, and with an eye on tapping the resource rich country, British troops launched their first war and within two years the campaign had ended with the annexation of Arakan and Tenneserim, the latter in the hope it could be sold to the Siamese.
		During the time, and in the two wars yet to come, the Karens were considered to be friends of the invading British forces, oppressed by the Burmese rulers and over taxed by the government, some acted as guides
	www.ibiblio.org /obl/docs3/karenmuseum/History/anglo_burmese_wars.htm (445 words)

	Europa: The History of the White Race :Chapter 46 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The third war was the last: after it a peace treaty recognized the independence of the by then thoroughly mixed race country.
		The First Anglo-Afghan war resulted in the famous battle of Khyber Pass (1842), where nearly 16000 White British troops and their Nonwhite Indian recruits were trapped and killed by the Afghans.
		The outcome of the First World War in 1919, saw the British Empire at its height: the Treaty of Versailles gave Britain most of the German Empire in Africa, while the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East led to the British acquisition of Palestine and Iraq in 1918.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/fowles/500/hwr46.htm (2406 words)

	The First British Official Historians
		This first attempt at official history in England was aimed at the military professional.
		The London branch produced histories of the Ashanti Expedition of 1873, the Zulu War of 1879, the Egyptian Campaign of 1882, the Campaign in the Sudan in 1885, and the Operations in Somaliland, 1901-04.
		Probably the War Office was happier than Maurice with the results, for the History of the War in South Africa conformed tactfully to German standards as a literal, fully documented record of the campaigns with reputations adequately protected.
	www.warchronicle.com /britain/first_officials.htm (4266 words)

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		The retreat of their advanced post was the signal for the Burmese Artillery to open, but their fire was subdued by the British; and the main body of the troops moved up the brink of the river.
		A grant was made for six months' batta to all who had served twelve months during the war, in Burmese territory, and three months to those who had served for six; and the heirs and assigns of those who had died were entitled to receive shares.
		On the 8th October 1827, the Governor General informed the Army that the Houses of Parliament had passed a vote of thanks to the troops engaged in the Burmese war, and that the Honourable East India Company had authorised a second grant of batta on the same conditions of the first.
	www.ans.com.au /~rampais/genelogy/india/kamptee/54th.htm (3246 words)

	Wars Myanmar Faced - Myanmar (Burma)
		The Pagan King Narathihapate (reigned 1254-87) shunned the first Mongol embassy and massacred the members of the second.
		Confident of victory because of recent Burmese conquests of the territory up to Nanchao, Narathihapate advanced boldly into Yunnan in 1277, accompanied by scores of elephants and soldiers.
		Even not many Myanmars know that a war broke out between Silon (Sri Lanka) and Myanmar around AD 1170, when King Narathu (Kalar Kya Min) was ruling Myanmar and King Parekamavahu-1 was in Silon.
	www.myanmars.net /NEWVER/history/wars.htm (317 words)

	MEDALS AS WAR - Online Information article about MEDALS AS WAR
		WAR DECORATIONS Although the striking of medals to commemorate important events is a practice of considerable antiquity, yet the See also:
		Henry VIII., but the first medals commemorating a particular event that were evidently intended as a See also:
		It differed however in one very material point from the war medal of to-day—in that it was issued in two sizes, and in several different metals.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /MEC_MIC/MEDALS_AS_WAR.html (5288 words)

	The China-India Border War
		Outcomes of the Border War included modernization of the Indian army, the roots of the 1965 India-Pakistan Bor- der War, and realization of China's limited strategic objec- tives--the limited nature of which was again seen in the 1979 China-Viet Nam Border War.
		The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the China-India Border War: its causes, the movement to armed conflict, the Chinese and Indian armies' preparedness for war, the conduct of the border War, the ceasefire, and the consequences of the Border War.
		The first years of the Indian republic were marked with a generally anti-military attitude; many Indian leaders remembered the role of the army in the bloody civil war that preceeded independence; this helped contribute to pacifistic attitudes.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1984/CJB.htm (17833 words)

	The First Burmese War
		In 1766, the Burmese had seized Tenasserim from Siam, 1784 saw the incorporation of Arakan into the kingdom of Ava and 1813 saw the conquering of Manipur, which lay near the Surma Valley.
		The first role the 13th played in the conflict was to seize and then occupy the island of Cheduba on the Arakan Coast.
		However, the Burmese were not a walk-over, 50,000 men armed with muskets, swords and spears who were familiar with jungle fighting, soon dug themselves in and surrounded Rangoon.
	www.somerset.gov.uk /archives/sli/1burmese.htm (559 words)

	First Anglo Burmese War, 1823-26
		A Burmese attack on 1 December was repulsed, and on 15 December a British attack broke Bandula's siege, and forced him to withdraw.
		Once again, the Burmese commander (Nemyo) was killed, and his army destroyed, freeing the British to march upriver to the then capitol of Burma, Yandobo, where the Burmese sought terms.
		By the treaty of Yandabo (24 February 1826), the Burmese surrendered Assam, Arakan, and the Tenasserim coast, greatly weakening Burma, and expanding British influence in the area.
	www.historyofwar.org /articles/wars_angloburma1.html (352 words)

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