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'Travels from India to England : comprehending a visit to the Burman Empire, and a journey through Persia, Asia Minor, European Turkey, &c., in the years 1825-26, by James Edward Alexander' [‎39] (88/412)

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BURMAN EMPIRE. 39
they had posted themselves, apparently either to harass the right
flank, or to fall into the rear of the British army on its advance from
Prome, or to annoy the garrison and intercept the communication.
Major Evans was directed to move with a native regiment on the
enemy's front, and to act in concert with Lieut. Colonel McDowall.
The number of the enemy's troops and the strength of his position
appear to have been miscalculated. The British troops encountered
formidable stockades twenty feet in height, from whence a galling
fire was opened. Colonel McDowall, the commandant, being unfor
tunately killed by the first discharge, and after a considerable time
spent in a vain endeavour to carry the defences, the brigades
were reluctantly obliged to retreat, with the loss of ten other officers,
and two hundred and fifty men killed and wounded. The Colonel's
body was put in a dooley and conveyed seven miles from where he
fell; but the bearers getting frightened, being closely followed by the
enemy, threw it into a nullah, and it was never recovered.
The Burmese army amounted to between fifty and sixty thousand
men ; the British effective force opposed to this number was but five
thousand (after garrisoning Prome), of which three thousand were
European.
The prudence of the veteran Maha Nemiow kept the Burmese
troops within their formidable stockades and entrenchments, which
they were constantly employed in strengthening and augmenting;
the British commander, therefore, resolved to become the assailant,
notwithstanding the numbers of the enemy, and the extensive and
difficult works which surrounded his positions.
On the 1st December, Sir Archibald Campbell advanced upon
Simbike to dislodge the corps of Maha Nemiow from its position on
the

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Travels from India to England : comprehending a visit to the Burman Empire, and a journey through Persia, Asia Minor, European Turkey, &c., in the years 1825-26, by James Edward Alexander.

Publication Details: London : Parbury, Allen & Co., 1827.

Ownership: With stamps of the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Library.

There are numerous illustrations, maps and plates.

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1 volume (316 pages)
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There is a table of content at the beginning of the volume, detailing the arrangement of contents and page references and illustrations (pages xi-xvi).

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Dimensions: 270 mm x 220 mm.

Pagination: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xv); (1-301).

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