Industrial Age · Southeast Asia · War
1852
Second Anglo-Burmese War
1852
A trumped-up dispute at Rangoon gave the East India Company its excuse to take Lower Burma. The Royal Navy steamed up the Irrawaddy, shelled the forts, and annexed the rice-rich delta. The kingdom of Ava was reduced to its mountain heartland, and the British empire's Burmese frontier crept another notch north.
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