A History of Assam c20.37

c20.37

On the 4th December he again set out for Manipur, and reached the capital in a fortnight. There were no Burmese there, but a considerable number of them occupied a stockade at Tammu, in the south-east corner of the valley. He had no guns, and the casualties in a direct attack would probably have been very heavy. He avoided this by cutting off the water-supply, which compelled the Burmese to retreat, after they had made several ineffectual sallies. The capture of a second stockade on the bank of the Ningthi river freed the whole State from the presence of the Burmese. Here and elsewhere liberty was restored to large numbers of Manipuris who had been carried off by the Burmese as slaves.