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Lord Amherst and the British Advance Eastwards to Burma (Paperback)
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Lord Amherst and the British Advance Eastwards to Burma (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History
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In 1823, after relatively undistinguished diplomatic missions to
Sicily and China, Lord Amherst (1773 1857) was appointed
Governor-general of Bengal, a compromise candidate following
Canning's sudden withdrawal to become foreign secretary. Arriving
in India, he found the country on the brink of war with Burma,
which he was unable to prevent or quickly to resolve, resulting in
an expensive and demoralising two-year campaign, and the death of
his eldest son. This 1894 biography, written by Anne Thackeray
Ritchie (1837 1919), elder daughter of the novelist, and journalist
Richardson Evans (1846 1923), was part of a series established by
Sir William Wilson Hunter (1840 1900), a former Administrator in
the subcontinent. Decidedly flattering in tone and glossing the War
as 'a glorious enterprise of arms', this book, which quotes
extensively from Lady Amherst's diary and other contemporary
sources, is a fascinating example of the late-Victorian
presentation of earlier colonial administration.
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