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¹ Hall, "The Tragedy of Negrais", in *Journal Burma Research Society*, 1931, part III. The statement, sometimes made in recent English works, that the massacre was a dastardly deed, perpetrated by Alaungpaya's subordinates without his authorisation, disregards the standard Burmese account, Konbaungset, pages 144-7, which shows that Alaungpaya regarded the operation as high strategy and personally insisted on it throughout.