NAVAL OPERATIONS
in
AVA,
during the
BURMESE WAR.
CHAPTER I.
At the commencement of the year 1824, numerous and unprovoked aggressions committed by the Burmese upon the S.E. frontier of the possessions of the Honorable East India Company, having induced the Right Honorable the Governor-General in Council to decide upon attacking them in their own country, a division of troops was ordered to be embarked at Calcutta, under the command of Brigadier Michael M‘Creagh, C.B., and another division at Madras, under Brigadier-General William Macbean: the command of those forces united was entrusted to Sir Archibald Campbell, K.C.B.
On the 12th March, 1824, George Swinton, Esq. Secretary to the Supreme Government, in the Secret and Political Department, addressed a letter to Commodore Charles Grant, C.B., commanding His Majesty’s squadron in India, of which the following is an extract:–
“I am directed by the Right Honorable the Governor-General in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 25th ultimo, and to convey to you the cordial acknowledgments of the Government, for the prompt and valuable aid, which it is your intention to afford his Lordship in Council, in the prosecution of offensive operations against the Burman nation.
