Talk:Second Anglo-Burmese War

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Unless anyone has any objections, I'll remove what I assume is Burmese text in the title before doing a complete rewrite of this article. [Ata] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.133.98.59 (talk) 13:43, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I object. You can rewrite it without removing the Burmese text. You can download one of the Unicode compliant Burmese fonts here: http://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Font. Hybernator (talk) 14:01, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Very well, I'll leave in the Burmese text and download some Burmese font, but this article still needs a major rewrite due to the lack of context to the conflit and relying on Cobden's anti-war pamphlet, which was published mainly to ruin the political footing of the ruling party in Britain (of which Cobden was not a member). Also I've changed Kingdom of Burma to Kingdom of Ava, which is the official name of Pagan Min's kingdom at that time. [Ata] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.133.98.59 (talk) 15:01, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please do rewrite. The name of the country has always been Burma (or Mranma/Myanma in Burmese), and has been so for nearly a millennium since the Pagan era. The capital city based names for Burmese kingdoms were simply how outsiders called the country. Besides, the capital was located in Amarapura at the time of war.Hybernator (talk) 15:19, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Confusing sentence

'The Burmese immediately made concessions including the removal of a governor whom the Company made their casus belli.'

I don't know what this means. The Burmese made a concession that was removing a governor? Which governor. If they made the concession why was it a casus belli? LastDodo (talk) 11:33, 28 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The sentence seems straightforward to me: A British-English writer talking about the company granted a monopoly on control of British interests in Burma stated that the Burmese tried to avoid or end the war by removing a governor whose actions were being used by the British as an excuse for their attacks. That said, sure, the rest of the information should be available in the article and the sentence could be rewritten to better effect with a full name or more standard capitalization. — LlywelynII 04:35, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Main reprisals

I get that it wasn't part of the main war or the Burmese kingdom's regular forces but the article should mention somewhere that Nga Myat Tun, Nya Myat Toon, or Myat-thoon's irregular forces successfully ambushed and repulsed Granville Gower Loch's men on 4 February 1853 near Danubyu and the reprisal attacks that followed. Seems to have been the main Burmese victory in the conflict, although it occurred after the precise date given here. (The date also seems suspect since the conflict didn't end with a treaty and the new king was still negotiating with the British for months afterward. Their subsequent annexation of the forest also seems to belie that hostilities/actions had completely ended or that Myat Tun's attacks should be regarded as an unrelated event.) — LlywelynII 04:35, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]