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== Summary ==
{{War|name=3rd Burma War |dates=9 November-28 December 1885 |image=|location=[[Burma]] |combatant1=British India |combatant2=Burma |result=British victory. Annexation of Burma |medal=[http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/dept/coins/collection/watson/page145.html India General Service medal, Burma 1885-87 clasp] |category=[[:Category:3rd Burma War|3rd Burma War]] |link1=}}
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In the 1880s British concerns were raised by contacts between the Burmese and the French whose colonial expansion in Indo-China had reached the Burmeses border. When a British company was fined by the Burmese for contraventions of its teak extraction contract, the British demanded arbitration and, when that was refused, issued an ultimatum which would have reduced Burma to a vassal state. When this was not accepted on 9 November 1885 an invasion force under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_North_Dalrymple_Prendergast Maj-Gen Harry North Dalrymple Prendergast] was sent up the Irrawaddy. By 26 November the envoys from King Thibaw offered to surrender. Thibaw was taken into exile in India and the British annexed the remainder of Burma on 1 January 1886.
