A History of Assam c20.7

c20.7

These events had preceded the formal declaration of war, which was not proclaimed until the 5th March. In anticipation of active operations a force of about 3,000 men, with several cannon and a gunboat flotilla, had been collected at Goālpāra, on the frontier of the old Ahom kingdom. To this force was now assigned the task of turning the Burmese out of the Brahmaputra valley. After a toilsome journey of fifteen days through the jungles and trackless swamps, to which the greater part of the country between Goālpāra and Gauhāti was at that time given over, it reached the latter place on the 28th March.