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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forces, the Hanthawaddy command had mistakenly equated their capture of Ava with the victory over Upper Burma, and had withdrawn two-thirds of the invasion force back to Bago, leaving just a third (less than ten thousand men) for what they consider a mop-up operation.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 ...