Myanmar

‘The Conflagration of Dalla on the Rangoon River’, from Eighteen views taken at and near Rangoon, by Joseph Moore, 1825. British Library/Bridgeman Images.

The First Anglo-Burmese War

In March 1824 the East India Company declared war on Burma, the opening salvo in a series of conflicts that would see one empire fall, another expand and leave divisive wounds still felt today.