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1 Best Novel About the Third Anglo-Burmese War
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War
Third Anglo-Burmese War
1885 CE
The Third Anglo-Burmese War began in November 1885 after disputes involving trade, diplomacy and the Burmese court. A British expedition advanced rapidly up the Irrawaddy and occupied Mandalay with limited conventional resistance.
King Thibaw was removed and Upper Burma annexed, but armed resistance continued for years through local leaders, former soldiers and groups labelled dacoits by colonial authorities.
This context supports historical fiction about river campaigning, the fall of the Konbaung monarchy, colonial annexation and the uncertain boundary between resistance and banditry.
