Then a fleet of steamers conveyed the troops up the noble river; while in 1824 a solitary steamer was all that India could furnish, to aid the flotilla of rowboats.

No worse government has ever existed than that of Burma when, with the boast that she intended to drive the British out of India, she began the war.

No people were ever kept down by a more grinding tyranny, and the occupation of the country by the British has been an even greater blessing to the population than has that of India.
Several works, some by eyewitnesses, others compiled from official documents, appeared after the war.

They differ remarkably in the relation of details, and still more in the spelling of the names both of persons and places.

I have chiefly followed those given in the narratives of Mr.H.H.Wilson, and of Major Snodgrass, the military secretary to the commander of the expedition..