The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c23.s4.8

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By the end of 1753 he had massacred the Gwes of Madaya-Okpo (p. 503), the survivors fleeing into the Shan States, and so harried the Talaings that they evacuated Āva. In 1754 the Talaings, having discovered a plot at Pegū, executed the captive Āva king; this so infuriated the Burmese deportees in the delta that they rose wholesale and seized Prome. Alaungpaya wrote telling them to hold out and promising the governorship of a district to any Burman who could make that district revolt against the Talaings. Finally he drove the Talaing besiegers away from Prome, and by 1755 he had annexed the country down to Lunhse (Kudut) in Henzada district, and to Rangoon; Lunhse he named Myanaung, "Speedy Victory", and Dagon Rangoon, "End of Strife". He went in procession with his great officers and returned solemn thanks at the Shwedagon for his victories.