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*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofindiann02lowc#page/238/mode/2up/ “The Burmese War 1852-1853”] from ''History of the Indian navy. (1613-1863) Volume 2'' by Charles Rathbone Low 1877 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/medalsofbritishn00longrich#page/292/mode/1up "The Second War with Burmah 1852-53"], page 292, ''Medals of the British Navy and how they were won'' by W.H. Long 1895 Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=CIUoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The golden Golden Dagon, or, Up and down the Irrawaddi: being passages of adventure in the Burman Empire''] by John Williamson Palmer 1856 Google Books. The author was an American doctor, appointed, in Hong Kong, surgeon on the EIC war steamer Phlegethon (Bengal Marine), which took part in the War.
*"An Officer's Diary of a Two Months' Boat Expedition in Burmah" ''Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal 1861 Part 1'' [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=vt4RAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA239 Part 1], page 239 [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=vt4RAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA402 Part 2], page 402. The author was a Medical Officer. Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=EW8BAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Six months at Martaban, during the Burmese war; and An essay on the political causes which led to the establishment of British power in India''] by "an officer in active service on the spot" 1854 Google Books
*[http://www.naval-review.com/issues/1930s/1938-2.pdf "A Naval Brigade In Burma in 1858"] (scroll down) by W. B. R. ''The Naval Review'' May 1938 Vol XXVI no 2, pages 283-288. The destination was the frontier post and Fort at Meaday, on the Irrawaddy.
*Fiction
**[https://archive.org/details/cu31924011128265 ''Britons at Bay: the Adventures of Two Midshipmen in the Second Burmese War''] by Henry Charles Moore 1900 Archive.org.
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