LITTLE more than a year ago a most beautifully illustrated, interesting volume on “Burma,” by Max and Bertha Ferrars, appeared, which has been most favourably received. And now we have a ...

Some still recalled the day in 1885 when Burma’s last king, brash Thibaw, sailed into exile and the British took over. Now, British rule was at an end. Atop gloomy Government House, where the ...

The British colonized Burma in a series of three wars beginning in 1824. During their rule, the Arakan problem declined as the British allowed for a relative degree of local autonomy. From 1824 to ...

164. The Fauna of British India: including Ceylon and Burma (Published under the patronage of the Secretary of State for India.) Edited by Lt.-Col. R. B. S. Sewell. Mammalia, Vol. 2: Carnivora ...

The Indians, our neighbors to the west, have been trading and settling in Burma for centuries, attracted by the opportunities of our fertile, uncrowded country. The British used cheap Indian labor ...

Track the progress of the Burma Campaign - from the rapid Japanese ... the Japanese government finally surrendered on 14 August 1945. The longest British and Commonwealth Campaign of World War ...

In May 1945, British forces crossed the Irrawaddy River in Burma and engaged a Japanese force, north of the Prome-Taungup road. With the tide of war changing in the allies favor, by May 9 ...