Narrative of the Burmese War: Detailing the Operations of Major-general Sir Archibald Campbell's Army, from Its Landing at Rangoon in May 1824, to the Conclusion of a Treaty of Peace at Yandaboo, in February 1826John Murray, 1827 - 319 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 313 - Rangoon ; upon the future payment of a similar sum at that place, within one hundred days from this date, with the proviso as above, the army will evacuate the dominions of his Majesty the King of Ava, with the least possible delay ; leaving the remaining moiety of the sum total to be paid by equal annual instalments in two years, from this 24th day of February 1826, AD, through the Consul, or Resident in Ava or Pegu, on the part of the Honourable the East India Company.
الصفحة 309 - His Majesty the King of Ava renounces all Claims upon, and will abstain from all future interference with, the Principality of Assam and its Dependencies, and also with the contiguous Petty States of Cachar and Jyntia. With regard to Munnipore it is stipulated, that, should Gumbheer Singh desire to return to that Country, he shall be recognized by the King of Ava as Rajah thereof.
الصفحة 97 - The moving masses, which had so very lately attracted our anxious attention, had sunk into the ground ; and to any one who had not witnessed the whole scene, the existence of these subterranean legions would not have been credited : the occasional movement of a chief, with his gilt chattah (umbrella), from place to place, supe'rintending the progress of their labour, was the only thing that now attracted notice. By a distant observer, the hills, covered with mounds of earth, would have been taken...
الصفحة 68 - Exaggerated reports of the strength and ferocity of the Burmese troops were soon in circulation, carrying alarm even to Calcutta, the very name of Burmhan spreading dread and terror among the native population, The peasants on the frontier fled in dismay from their villages ; and every idle rumour was magnified so industriously by timid or designing people, that the native merchants of Calcutta were with difficulty persuaded to refrain from removing their families and property from under the very...
الصفحة 312 - ... treaty as little irksome or inconvenient as possible to his Majesty the King of Ava, consent to the following arrangements, with respect to the division of the sum total, as specified in the article before referred to, into instalments, viz. : upon the payment of twenty-five lacs of rupees, or one-fourth of the sum total, (the other...
الصفحة 168 - Yesterday morning, between the hours of nine and ten, while the chiefs dinner was preparing, he went out to take his usual morning walk round the works, and arrived at his observatory, (that tower with a red ball upon it,) where, as there was no firing, he sat down upon a couch that was kept there for his use. While he was giving orders to some of his chiefs, the English began throwing bombs, and one of them falling close to the...
الصفحة 169 - Wongee, burst, and killed him on the spot: his body was immediately carried away and burned to ashes ; his death was soon known to every body in the stockade, and the soldiers refused to stay and fight under any other commander. The chiefs lost all influence and command over their men, every individual thinking only of providing for his own personal safety.
الصفحة 225 - In addition to a numerous list of Chobwas and petty princes, these levies were accompanied by three young and handsome women, of high rank, who were believed by their superstitious countrymen to be endowed not only with the gift of prophecy and foreknowledge, but to possess the mysterious power of turning aside the balls of the English, rendering them wholly innocent and harmless.
الصفحة 48 - Soomba Wongee, a Woondock, and several other chiefs of rank, with eight hundred men were killed upon the spot, and the jungle and villages in the neighbourhood were filled with the unhappy wretches who were wounded, and left to die, from want of food and care.
الصفحة 218 - If you wish for peace, you may go away ; but if you ask either money or territory, no friendship can exist between us.