Konbaung is only one among many other …
Years: 1752 - 1752
March
Konbaung is only one among many other resistance forces that had independently sprung up across a panicked Upper Burma.
Fortunately for the resistance forces, the Hanthawaddy command had mistakenly equated their capture of Ava with the victory over Upper Burma, and had withdrawn two-thirds of the invasion force back to Bago, leaving just a third (less than ten thousand men) for what they consider a mop-up operation.
At first, the strategy seems to work. Hanthawaddy forces established outposts as far north as present day northern Sagaing Region and ...
Fortunately for the resistance forces, the Hanthawaddy command had mistakenly equated their capture of Ava with the victory over Upper Burma, and had withdrawn two-thirds of the invasion force back to Bago, leaving just a third (less than ten thousand men) for what they consider a mop-up operation.
At first, the strategy seems to work. Hanthawaddy forces established outposts as far north as present day northern Sagaing Region and ...
Locations
People
Groups
- Mon people
- Bamar or Burmans
- Mon Kingdoms
- Shan people
- Myanmar (Burma), (Toungoo dynasty) Kingdom of
- Shan States
- Ava, Toungoo dynastic state of
- Chinese Empire, Qing (Manchu) Dynasty
- East India Company, British (United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies)
- French Company of the Indies
- Manipur, Kingdom of
- Hanthawaddy Kingdom, Restored, or Pegu (Bago), (restored) Mon Kingdom of
- Myanmar (Burma), (Alaungpaya, or Konbaung dynasty) Kingdom of
Topics
- Colonization of Asia, Dutch
- Colonization of Asia, French
- Colonization of Asia, British
- Burmese Civil War of 1740-52
- Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War
