A History of Assam c20.9

c20.9

The Burmese had erected strong stockades near Gauhāti, but their numbers had been greatly reduced by desertions, by the withdrawal of troops for service in Burma itself, and by the operations in the direction of Cachar which have already been described, and their generals did not feel strong enough to venture on an engagement. They accordingly retired to Marā Mukh in Upper Assam, after massacring many of the unfortunate inhabitants, whose bodies, barbarously mutilated, were found by the advancing British, along the road and in the stockades at Gauhāti.