Conflict of Danubyu March–April 1825 // Bandula's lookout tree at Danybyu, established with four weapons

Dera Steemains,

         Bandula's lookout tree at Danybyu, established with four weapons

            A small city now not a ways from Yangon, in the Irrawaddy delta.

Having out of place professional guys in Yangon, the Burmese forces now numbered approximately 10,000, of combined great, which includes a number of the king's high-quality soldiers but moreover many untrained and barely armed conscripts. The stockade itself stretched a mile alongside the riverbank,

        And turned into manufactured from strong teak beams no much less than 15 ft excessive 

In March 1825, a 4 thousand sturdy British force supported via a flotilla of gun boats attacked Danubyu. the number one British attack failed, and Bandula tried a counter rate, with foot soldiers, cavalry and 17 preventing elephants. however the elephants had been stopped thru rocket fire and the cavalry discovered it impossible to move closer to the sustained British artillery fire. On 1 April, the British released a chief attack, pounding down on the town with their heavy guns and raining their rockets on every a part of the Burmese line. Bandula modified into killed by manner of a mortar shell. Bandula had walked throughout the fort to boost the morale of his men, in his full insignia underneath a glittering golden umbrella, discarding the warnings of his generals that he should prove an clean goal for the enemy's guns. After Bandula's lack of life, the Burmese evacuated Danubyu

If You want more then @Follow @Robinsoncaiso