Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887 . toryto the British Indian possessions. The war began withthe bombardment of Rangoon, April 11, 1852, and itscapture three days later. Prome, Bassein, Martaban, andother cities one after another fell into British hands; theBritish forces were almost invariably successful, and in afew months peace was declared and the whole of the coastprovinces of Burmah passed under British sway. The third Burmese war (1885) grew out of the inter-ference of the king with the rights of British subjects in 28 DECISIVE BATTLE
Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887 . toryto the British Indian possessions. The war began withthe bombardment of Rangoon, April 11, 1852, and itscapture three days later. Prome, Bassein, Martaban, andother cities one after another fell into British hands; theBritish forces were almost invariably successful, and in afew months peace was declared and the whole of the coastprovinces of Burmah passed under British sway. The third Burmese war (1885) grew out of the inter-ference of the king with the rights of British subjects in 28 DECISIVE BATTLES SINCE WATERLOO. Burmah and his violation of the provisions of a commercialtreaty. He refused all reparation of the wrongs he hadcommitted, and thus rendered necessary an appeal toarms. A British army invaded the country, and after afew insignificant skirmishes occupied the capital and endedthe war. The king was deposed and sent to a designatedplace of retirement on the Upper Irrawaddy; the Britishpower was extended over the whole of Burmah, and thedynasty of Alompra came to an CHAPTER III. BATTLE OF NAVARINO—1827. FROM 1815 to 1830 all the wars of Europe were withthe Mohammedans, except a few revolutionary and otheraffairs of no great consequence. The English made anattack on Algiers in 1816 to punish the Algerines fortheir piracies and for their cruelties to British subjects,and fourteen years later the same place was captured bythe French and has since been held with a firm Greek revolution, which broke out in 1821, was therevolt of Christians held in subjection by the Turks, theMoslem conquerors of Southeastern Europe, who hadruled the Hellenes with great oppression, and the strugglewas continued until the independence of Greece wasacknowledged. The war of Russia against the Persians,in 1826, was also a fight between Christianity and Islam,and so was the war between Russia and Turkey in the English in India were contending against theMoslems mor
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