Anglo-burmese war-II:
‘The Resident, however, claimed that the Burmese did not treat him with dignity and left in 1839. In the meanwhile the China trade had expanded, English settlements in South-East Asia too had enlarged considerably, and therefore the English needed easier access to Burmese timber to repair ships and to the Irrawady rice bowl to feed settlers.
In 1852, then, t e Governor-General Dalhousie decided to attack Burma on the pretext of restoring the dignity of the English.
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The Second Anglo-Burmese War started in 1852, and by 1853 the English had annexed Pegu and the region up to Toungoo.
The Burmese king Mindon Min was forced to shift his capital to Mandalay. The English had thus gained control over the entire coast of the Bay of Bengal.
Later in the century, in 1885, the English finally annexed the whole of Burma on the pretext that king Thibaw Min was a tyrant and intriguing with the French in Vietnam to Weaken English control over Asia. Burma was made into a province of British India.
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