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 ...