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Auction: 3015 - India & States, Ceylon and Borneo
Lot: 303

†1825 Commander-In-Chief's Order, issued at Prome and giving full details of the Burmese king's unco-operativeness, the breakdown of a treaty and of the campaign the English were carrying out against the Burmese king's soldiers, details of how the people should behave, and that the English will help them; written in Burmese, signed by three officers in English and with red wax seal at foot. A remarkable and important document from the First Anglo-Burmese War. Photo Estimate £ 1,200-1,500

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