Excerpt from Narrative of the Burmeses War: In 1824 26, as Originally Compiled From Official Documents The war with the Burmas in 1824-26, was at tended with so many circumstances of a novel and peculiar character, and opened to European access so many new and interesting regions, that it was thought advisable by the Government of Bengal, to place before the public in a collective and available form, a series of official documents, illustrative of the origin, course and termination of hostilities: providing in this manner a trust worthy guide for any future emergency of a similar nature, and disseminating authentic in formation respecting the valuable countries be tween India and China, of which at the time little or nothing was known. With these views two sets of papers were selected, the one political and military, the other topographical and statis tical, and both were printed in Calcutta, in 1827. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.