A Political History of the Extraordinary Events which Led to the Burmese War ...author, and published, 1827 - 169페이지 |
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Ammerapora arms army Arracanese Assamese attack British envoy British Government British territories British troops Burman Burmese chiefs Burmese commander Burmese forces Burmese Government Burmese troops Burmese war Cachar Calcutta Captain Chitta Chittagong district Company's province Company's territories conduct consequence Court of Ava Court of Directors Cox's Bazaar crossed the Nauf declared demand despatch detachment emigrants endeavoured English envoy at Rangoon frontier of Arracan fugitives Government of Bengal Governor-General honour Indian Government insurgents invasion of Arracan Island of Shuparee King of Ava Kingberring Kingberring's letter Lord Amherst Lord Hastings lordship magistrate of Chittagong Maha Majesty mand ment mese Mughs native Nauf river officers orders Otea Ghaut Pegu Poorunder Singh possession pounds stirling prevent proceedings protection province of Arracan province of Chittagong Rajah Chunder Kaunt Rajah of Arracan Ramoo rebel received refugees reply Rutnapullung seize sepoys stockade surrender Teck Nauf thousand tion Vakeels vernment viceroy
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153 페이지 - British government should have endeavoured to establish an influence superior to other Europeans over the minds of the native powers in India; and that the danger and discredit arising from the forfeiture of this pre-eminence could not be compensated by the temporary success of any plan of violence and injustice.
153 페이지 - That the maintenance of an inviolable character for moderation, good faith, and scrupulous regard to treaty, ought to have been the simple grounds on which the British governments should have endeavoured to establish an influence superior to that of other Europeans, over the minds of the native powers in India. And that the danger and discredit arising from the forfeiture of this preeminence could not be compensated...
108 페이지 - That every interference, as a party, in the domestic or national quarrels of the country powers, and all new engagements with them in offensive alliance, have been wisely and providently forbidden by the Company in their commands to their administrations in India.
132 페이지 - If you want tranquility be quiet; but if you rebuild a stockade at Shein-ma-bu, I will cause to be taken by force of arms the cities of Dacca and Moorshedabad, which originally belonged to the great Arracan Rajah, whose Chokies and Pagodas were there.
152 페이지 - ... has been stated by other writers to be so secure as to defy all the efforts of the Burmese. Upon this question the following paragraph, in an official despatch from Bengal,* will perhaps be admitted to be conclusive : Since the above date (4th February 1824), we have reflected deliberately and maturely on the insecure and exposed state of our whole eastern frontier at the present critical juncture; the evident policy, if not the urgent necessity, of measures being at once adopted for expelling...
137 페이지 - sepoys, the just indignation excited by that act of outrage, and the declarations and resolutions it had necessarily induced, must utterly preclude any compromise of the above nature, even if not proffered in the...
155 페이지 - Ava, which was provoked by the unjust aggression of the enemy, prosecuted amid circumstances of very unusual difficulty, and terminated so as to uphold the character of the Company's Government, to maintain the British ascendant in India, and to impress the bordering states with just notions of the national power and resources.
122 페이지 - ... themselves of these to the number of two hundred or more. From the period of this battle the Grand Khan has always chosen to employ elephants in his armies, which before that time he had not done. The consequences of the victory were, that he acquired possession of the whole of the territories of the king of Bangala and Mien, and annexed them to his dominions.
151 페이지 - Shapooree, is a dependency of the four great cities, and because British sepoys were stationed there, the governor of Arracan requested, in the first instance, that they might be withdrawn, and afterwards caused them to be expelled by royal authority. The governor of Arracan...
111 페이지 - ... in violent collision with the arrogant pretensions, the offended pride, and the indignant jealousy of the Burmese Government ; and these conflicting causes soon created aggressions and retaliations, which it was easy to foresee must, sooner or later, terminate in war. These reasonable grounds, which the Burmese had for discontent, had certainly not increased during the administration of Lord Hastings.