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Anglo-Burmese Wars

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Major General Charles Frederick Hughes, CB (1844 - 1932)
Major General Charles Frederick Hughes CBLate Indian Staff Corps died at Church Stretton, Shropshire aged 88.He was educated at Cheltenham College and Royal Military College, Addiscombe; commissioned E...
Lieutenant Robert Doran (b. - 1852)
> ===The Great Pagoda, 14th April===> At 5am on 14th April they moved on with the 18th in the lead this time, having to cut paths through the jungle for the big guns. As they approached the Great Pagod...
Field Marshal Sir George Stuart White, VC, GCMG, GCVO (1835 - 1912)
Marshal Sir George Stuart White VC, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO, (6 July 1835[1] – 24 June 1912) was an officer of the British Army and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestig...
Sir George John Younghusband KCMG KCIE CB (1859 - 1944)
E. Frederick H. McSwiney (1858 - 1907)
Fred was born the night of February 28 or early March 1 1858 in Kronstadt, Port of St. Petersburg, where his father was the Anglican Chaplain serving the large British population in St. Petersburg at t...

There have been three Burmese Wars or Anglo-Burmese Wars:

The war saw the loss of sovereignty of an independent Burma under the Konbaung Dynasty, whose rule had already been reduced to the territory known as Upper Burma, the region of Lower Burma having been annexed by the British in 1853, as a result of the Second Anglo-Burmese War.
Following the war, Burma came under the rule of the British Raj as a province of India.
From 1937 on, the British ruled Burma as a separate colony.
Burma achieved independence just eleven years later as a republic in 1948. It is now named Myanmar.