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Upper Burmah [i.e. Myanmar] Expeditionary Force, 1886-87

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029B
Scope and Contents A printed volume containing prints, 135 x 100 mm, mounted above descriptive text. The photographer and writer was Colonel Robert Blackall Graham. His introduction is dated 1 April 1887.In November 1885 a British Force occupied Mandalay and imprisoned King Thebaw. This was followed on 1 January 1886 by the annexation of Upper Burma, but guerilla activity continued for more that a further year and there were various subsequent expeditions.Despite the title of this volume,...
Dates: 1886 - 1887
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