British colonial rule in Burma lasted from 1824 to 1948, from the successive three Anglo-Burmese wars through the creation of Burma as a province of British India to the establishment of an independently administered colony, and finally independence.

History of Myanmar - The British in Burma, 1885–1948: The third of the Anglo-Burmese Wars lasted less than two weeks during November 1885, with the British taking Mandalay, which had become the capital of northern Myanmar in 1857, with remarkable alacrity.

Britons had significant confidence in their ability to maintain control over and change Burma. They believed that it could be guarded best within British India while still being able to maintain its own unique potential and culture, and that the potential of the country's geography and incoming migrants promised a bright commercial future. [1] in the early 1930s, when the Saya San …

Anglo-Burmese Wars, (1824–26, 1852, 1885), three conflicts that collectively forced Burma (now Myanmar) into a vulnerable position from which it had to concede British hegemony in the region of the Bay of Bengal.

3 天之前 · As the guerrillas fought on, the British adopted a “strategic hamlet” plan, whereby villages were burned and families who had supplied villages with their leaders were uprooted from their homes and sent away to Lower Burma (which had been under British control since the Second Anglo-Burmese War).

2018年10月16日 · The Burma Independence Army (BIA), headed by Aung San and backed by Japan, was provided with an opportunity to drive out the British with the outbreak of World War II, which marked the beginnings of ongoing tensions, as minority ethnic groups fought against the BIA and Japanese alongside the British.

British rule in Burma lasted from 1824 to 1948, from the Anglo-Burmese Wars through the creation of Burma as a province of British India to the establishment of an independently administered colony, and finally independence.

2015年2月5日 · Burma was carved up by the British in three Anglo-Burmese wars (1824–1826, 1852–1853, and 1885) and for much of the nineteenth century there were two competing Burmas, a shrinking independent state in the north and an expanding colonial entity in the south.

British rule in Burma lasted from 1824 to 1948. This started from the successive three Anglo-Burmese wars through the creation of Burma as a province of British India to the establishment of an independently administered colony.

2017年4月11日 · A short guide to the events, politics and legacy of Burma’s decades under British India. By JARED DOWNING | FRONTIER. AFTER THREE disastrous wars with Britain, the once-fearsome Alaungpaya Dynasty lay in tatters, and in 1886 the rest of the kingdom was officially annexed into British India.