ABSTRACT
Alaungpaya built a state hut and sent ten horsemen to conduct them respectfully to it. But they were conducted along a hollow road and in the bushes on each side lay his musket men. Alaungpaya received many a check but his men fought with the greatest spirit, rushing up to stockades and tearing them down with dahs and axes. Alaungpaya had been hailed as king from the first and had already built a palace at Shwebo. Alaungpaya wrote to their leaders promising them the governorship of any districts they could instigate to revolt. Alaungpaya bade the victors hold out, and when the Talaing army, retreating from Ava in April 1754, besieged them hard, he came down with his entire host. Alaungpaya himself returned with a large force, containing Shan and Chin levies, to Syriam which his men had started to besiege soon after the capture of Rangoon.
