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== Cause of the War - An Imperial View == | == Cause of the War - An Imperial View == | ||
''"The future historian may write that the Second Burmese war was chiefly caused and prolonged by a few blustering Burmese officers, the representatives of a self-interested rabble, whose chief object was to fill the golden ear of royalty with false reports, that they might prop up a government fast falling to decay, and with greater vigour sow the seeds of ruin in these fertile and beautiful regions. He will then probably gladly tell how the British power came forward in time of need with that protecting hand which has been so often held forth in similar missions, and which we trust may be so employed until peace secures in her fair dominions the entire human family."''<br>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ftq1AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover 'Pegu' by Lt William Laurie] | ''"The future historian may write that the Second Burmese war was chiefly caused and prolonged by a few blustering Burmese officers, the representatives of a self-interested rabble, whose chief object was to fill the golden ear of royalty with false reports, that they might prop up a government fast falling to decay, and with greater vigour sow the seeds of ruin in these fertile and beautiful regions. He will then probably gladly tell how the British power came forward in time of need with that protecting hand which has been so often held forth in similar missions, and which we trust may be so employed until peace secures in her fair dominions the entire human family."''<br>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ftq1AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover 'Pegu' by Lt William Laurie] | ||
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Cause of the War - An Imperial View
"The future historian may write that the Second Burmese war was chiefly caused and prolonged by a few blustering Burmese officers, the representatives of a self-interested rabble, whose chief object was to fill the golden ear of royalty with false reports, that they might prop up a government fast falling to decay, and with greater vigour sow the seeds of ruin in these fertile and beautiful regions. He will then probably gladly tell how the British power came forward in time of need with that protecting hand which has been so often held forth in similar missions, and which we trust may be so employed until peace secures in her fair dominions the entire human family."
'Pegu' by Lt William Laurie
External Links
Wikipedia - Anglo-Burmese Wars
Map of British Conquest of Burma
Wikipedia - 2nd Burma War 1852-53
Google Books - Operations at Rangoon in 1852 by Lt William Laurie
Google Books - Events in Second Burmeses War Aug 1852 - Jun 1853 by Lt William Laurie
Medals of the British Army - 2nd Burmese War
Pages in category "2nd Burma War 1852-53"
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