The battles of the British Army
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The battles of the British Army is, in its own words, a popular account of all the principal engagements during the last hundred years, by Robert Melvin Blackwood. The text says that in comparison with Assaye, all fighting that had hitherto taken place in India was child's play. A chapter is headed The Battle of the Alma, 1854.
Following declarations of war with Russia, on the 27th and 28th March, 1854, respectively, the Governments of France and Britain at once made arrangements for forwarding a sufficient number of troops to the East. Without the drawing up of any formal treaty, the King of Ava at length decided to treat for peace by granting the concessions demanded of him. The 18 British soldiers who fell in an action were buried on the gravelly slope near the zareba where they met their fate.
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- Robert Melvin Blackwood
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- 451
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- English
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- European History
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