The comprehensive history of England : civil and military, religious, intellectual, and social, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt . umerousand strongly posted, fled in all directions, andabandoned their purpose. The whole provinceof Pegu was thenceforth annexed, by a procla-mation of the governor-general, to the Britishdominions in India. After the capture of Prome and the annexa-tion of Pegu, the war with Burmah may be oaidto have been closed. But the victors had stillthe task of suppressing those Dacoit chiefs whohad appeared on the field during the disturbedsta
The comprehensive history of England : civil and military, religious, intellectual, and social, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt . umerousand strongly posted, fled in all directions, andabandoned their purpose. The whole provinceof Pegu was thenceforth annexed, by a procla-mation of the governor-general, to the Britishdominions in India. After the capture of Prome and the annexa-tion of Pegu, the war with Burmah may be oaidto have been closed. But the victors had stillthe task of suppressing those Dacoit chiefs whohad appeared on the field during the disturbedstate of the kingdom, and who plundered friendand enemy alike. The most conspicuous of thesemarauding chiefs, called Mea-Toon, was first as-sailed in his strongliold, about fifteen miles in-land from Donnabew; but the small force ofBritish wlio were sent on this expedition wererepulsed with considerable loss. A still largerwas then sent, consisting of sailors and marinesand 350 sepoys; but they, too, fared as theirpredecessors done, being utterly defeated,with the loss of their princij)al officei-s. As suchan enemy could not be despised, that course was. CAFFur Chief of the Zi Angnb Illustrations of th< Caffrcs. finally taken which shouhl have been adoptedat first; a large detachment, numbering about1300, under the command of Sir John Cheape,was sent against the marauder, who was drivenfrom his defences after a gallant resistance. Onthe defeat of Mea-Toon hostilities ceased, the King of Ava having agieed to those concessionswhich the governor-general demanded. During this Burmese war, the British armshad been employed against an enemy in SouthAfrica of a still more formidable description, asfar as personal bulk, strength, and endurancewere concerned, than the warriors of the were the Cafires of the Cape of GoodHope, whose limits had been successively less-ened by the increase of the British colonists,and by their own unsuccessful aggressions whent
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