A Sketch of the Services of the Madras European Regiment during the Burmese War

by Colonel John Butler

$1,200 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

Publisher's original cloth, upper board gilt-stamped First edition of a first-hand regimental account of the First Anglo-Burmese War, written from within the Madras European Regiment and published thirteen years after the close of the conflict. The narrative follows the regiment from Masulipatam across the Bay of Bengal to the Rangoon River, with detailed accounts of the landing at Rangoon, the attack on stockades, and the advance toward Prome. Butler writes with

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