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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130905003317/http://www.old-print.com/mas_assets/full2/M1321885/M1321885445.jpg Drawings of an elephant battery at Tongo, Burma 1885] with guns loaded on the elephants’ backs. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131116224320/http://www.old-print.com/cgi-bin/item/M1321885445/search/16%252DAntique%252DPrint%252Dof%252D1885%252DBurma%252DElephant%252DBattery%252DTongo%252DIndia%252DAnimals%252D old-print.com] (archived page) Originally from ''The Graphic'' Saturday, October 24, 1885
*[http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0115%2FY3029A Burma Campaigns 1889-91]. Details of photographs in the Cambridge University Library. Mentions the assault on Kyaing-Kwintaung Stockade during the Wuntho Sawbwa Campaign of 1891 by the [[11th Regiment of Foot|2nd Devonshire Regiment]]
==== Historical Books on-line online ====
*[https://archive.org/details/ourburmesewarsre00laur ''Our Burmese wars and relations with Burma : being an abstract of military and political operations, 1824-25-26, and 1852-53, with various local, statistical, and commercial information, and a summary of events from 1826 to 1879, including a sketch of King Theebau's progress''] by Colonel W F B Laurie 1880 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924007613528#page/n125/mode/2up ''Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India '' Vol V - 3rd Burma War] Archive.org*[https://archive.org/stream/burmaunderbritis01nisb#page/82/mode/2up "The Third Burmese War"] Chapter IV, page 82, ''Burma under British Rule - and Before, Volume I'' by John Nisbet, late Conservator of Forests, Burma 1901 Archive.org.
*''The London Gazette''
**[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/25599/page/2965 Operations in Upper Burma which resulted in the capture of Mandalay 28 November 1885 and the overthrow of King Theebaw.] Official correspondence in the ''London Gazette'' Tuesday 22 June 1886
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023217197 ''The Coming of the Great Queen : a Narrative of the Acquisition of Burma''] by Major Edmond Charles Browne, Late Commandant Mounted Infantry Corps, Burma Field Force 1888 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/pacificationofbu00crosrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Pacification of Burma'']
by Sir Charles Crosthwaite. Chief Commissioner of Burma 1887-1890. 1912 Archive.org.This edition which has illustrations, is missing the [https://archive.org/stream/pacificationbur00crosgoog#page/n12/mode/2up first page of the Preface] which may be viewed in an alternative edition.
*[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/279171 ''Record Of The Service Of The 23rd Bombay Light Infantry During The Campaign In Burma, From July 1886 To May 1888''] by W A M Wilson. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/NotesOnCavalryEmployedInUpperBurmaFromOctober1886ToOctober1887/2.109Heyland#page/n0/mode/2up "Notes on Cavalry Employed in Upper Burma From October 1886 to October 1887"]. Originally from ''History of the Third Burmese War 1885, 1886 and 1887'' (1889) Reprinted in ''SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research'', Vol 2, No 1, Spring 2004. Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/MandalayIn1885-1888TheLettersOfJamesAlfredColbeck/2.111Colbeck2#page/n0/mode/2up "Mandalay in 1885-1888: The Letters of James Alfred Colbeck"] “The present letters include the years 1885-1888, when Colbeck returned to Upper Burma with British forces and served as both mission priest and as acting chaplain for British forces”. Originally from ''Letters from Mandalay, A Series of Letters For the Most Part Written From the Royal City of Mandalay During the Troublous Years of 1878-79; Together with Letters Written During the Last Burmese Campaign of 1885-88'' (1892). Reprinted in ''SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research'', Vol 2, No1, Spring 2004. Archive.org. ([https://archive.org/details/MandalayIn1878-1879TheLettersOfJamesAlfredColbeck 1878-1879 Letters] Archive.org)
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/medalsofbritishn00longrich#page/295/mode/1up "Third Burmese War and Annexation of Burmah 1885-87"], page 295, ''Medals of the British Navy and how they were won'' by W.H. Long 1895 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/otherwayrespectf00forb#page/128/mode/2up "Among the Dacoits"] page 128 ''The other way: respectfully dedicated to all good housewives'' by Ernest Forbes 1899 Archive.org
*[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/175578 ''The Life Of General Sir Harry N.D. Prendergast''] by Henry M. Vibart 1914. Pdf download from the Digital Library of India. Sir Harry led the 1885 expedition.
*“A Naval Officer on an Indian Army Staff” by G. A. B. ''The Naval Review'' May 1938 Vol XXVI no 1, pages 75-85 and no. 2, pages 271-282. [http://www.naval-review.com/issues/1930s/1938-1.pdf Part I] (scroll down) and [http://www.naval-review.com/issues/1930s/1938-2.pdf Part II] (scroll down). During the Burma river war of 1885, the author, G. A. B., was appointed naval aide-de-camp to General Prendergast who was in command.
