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Updated: June 3, 2025
Still pressing forward, the army and squadron arrived at Yandaboo, forty-five miles only from Ava the Burmese, whenever they were met, being completely defeated. For nearly a year the naval officers and their men were away from their ships, rowing and tracking their boats by day against a rapid stream, and at night protected only by awnings, and often hard-pressed for provisions.
The next morning he and Commander Gardner, with the boats' crews of the Sampson and Penelope, were employed in a similar way. They returned in the afternoon, having by extraordinary exertions embarked or destroyed fifty-two pieces of ordnance. Lagos has now become a British province. By the treaty of Yandaboo in 1824 the Burmese granted security to English merchants and English commerce.
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