Myanmar has been a textbook case of the tragedies of socialism. While people are familiar with Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung ...

These, however, prove insufficient to stave off the British. 1826 - First Anglo-Burmese War: Burma loses Arakan, Manipur, Assam and Tenasserim to the British. 1852-53 - Second Anglo-Burmese War ...

The First Anglo-Burmese War started on this day and continued till February 24, 1826. It was the first of the three wars that were fought between the British and the Burmese empires in the 19th ...

Following the invasion and occupation of Assam and Manipur by the seventh ruler of the Konbaung dynasty, King Bagyidaw of Burma in the early 19th century, the British felt their province of Bengal ...

Theebaw was born into the the Konbaung dynasty in 1859, six years after his country was defeated by the British in the Second Anglo-Burmese War and lost Lower Burma to the East India Company.

leader of the Burmese army in the First Anglo-Burmese War, an intriguing mix of Burmese patriotism and western consumerism. Since independence, Myanmar has had a chequered history. The exhibition ...

The vast tracts of land in these regions were previously uncultivated and sparsely inhabited. Following the Anglo-Burmese war in 1824 and with the implementation of British legislation such as the ...

These, however, prove insufficient to stave off the British. 1826 - First Anglo-Burmese War: Burma loses Arakan, Manipur, Assam and Tenasserim to the British. 1852-53 - Second Anglo-Burmese War ...