Read The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma Online
Authors: Thant Myint-U
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Waldheim, Kurt,
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Wallace, William,
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Yamashita Tomoyuki,
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Yanaung,
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East India Company forces under General Sir Archibald Campbell land at Rangoon in 1824. (The British Library)
A Burmese minister of state in military dress, together with attendants, during the First Anglo- Burmese War (1824–26). (The British Library)
The lord of Magwe arrives in Calcutta to discuss peace with the marquess of Dalhousie in 1854. (© CORBIS)
Thibaw and Supayalat, Burma’s last king and queen, at Mandalay in the early 1880s.
The lord of Kyaukmyaung and other officials visiting the viceroy Lord Ripon at Simla in 1882. (Picture Collection, The Branch Libraries, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations)
British troops under General Sir Harry Prendergast at Christmas service in front of Thibaw’s palace, soon after the capture of Mandalay in 1885. (© Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS)