[300] British India, p. 463 sq. Geijer, the historian of Sweden, well compares them to the Bersekkars.
[301] Wilson’s Burmese War, p. 105.
[302] It may be as well to state, that about this time Colonel Godwin, after a gallant resistance, took Martaban for the first time; it has since been given up to the Burmese; but in this last war it was again taken possession of, and it is now in our hands.
[303] Wilson, pp. 106, 107.
[304] Wilson, p. 113.
[305] Burmese War, p. 119. My limits do not admit of my speaking much of the war in Arakhan, which was yet undetermined. I shall content myself with referring to Macfarlane, Wilson, and other historians, merely adding, that the conquest of the province was completed by the end of April, 1825.
[306] Wilson, p. 175.
[307] I may here mention, that the author of Two Years in Ava has enriched his book by an excellent and complete plan of the fortress and works of Donabew, which I most heartily recommend to the student of military science.
[308] MacFarlane’s India, p. 479.
[309] Wilson’s Burmese War, p. 181.