Talk:First Anglo-Burmese War

message: It would be interesting to know what kind of weaponry and tactics the combatants used. For the British that might be obvious, except for the amount of artillery they managed to get there. In the moment it reads more like a novel.Hirsch.im.wald 22:23, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Technology? 

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replies: text: Fixed. Wagaung (talk) 16:44, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
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message: (1)   "The Burmese never saw Congreve rockets before".   Well,  maybe so,  but the Congreve rockets were copied from the sultanate (?) of Mysore in Southern India,   and it seems implausible that 25 years later,  the Burmese had never heard about them.  They were an Indian technology, not European.
(2)   It was all about the rivalry between the British and the French.   This is also implausible. 1824 was only 9 years after the end of 25 years of war and revolutionary strife due to the French revolution and then Napoleon.  The Bourbon regime in France was very weak and had a lot of political dissent and economic problems.  Their armed forces and particularly naval forces were weak and they were surrounded by suspicious neighbours.   French influence in India had declined to a small vestige.  The French concentrated their efforts in that period to dominating Algeria.  It was another 25 years and the rise of Napoleon III to power before they started become assertive in colonial expansion elsewhere.Lathamibird (talk) 11:11, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Very dubious claims