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“Battle of Ramu.” Hindu History, 2026, https://www.hinduhistory.in/battles/battle-of-ramu-1824/. Accessed .
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Hindu History. (2026). Battle of Ramu. Retrieved , from https://www.hinduhistory.in/battles/battle-of-ramu-1824/
After three days of fighting the Company’s post was routed and driven out of Ramu on 17 May 1824.
01Bandula’s two-pronged plan
By 1824 Burma held Assam and Manipur and was pressing on Cachar. Maha Bandula planned to strike Bengal from two sides, through Cachar and Sylhet in the north and from Arakan towards Chittagong in the south. He commanded the Arakan front himself. In May 1824 a Burmese force under Maha Thiha Thura crossed into Chittagong district and came up against the Company outpost at Ramu, a mixed force of a few hundred sepoys and local levies.
02The rout
The Burmese first offered to stop if the Company handed over Arakanese rebels sheltering in Bengal. Captain Noton refused. The Burmese dug in close to his position and attacked; after three days, on 17 May, the levies broke and the post was overrun, with the Company losing more than half the garrison in killed, wounded and missing. Rumour of a Burmese march on Calcutta ran through Bengal. Then the British landing at Rangoon drew Bandula back to defend Burma itself, and Ramu became the high-water mark of the invasion.
Ramu was Burma’s greatest success against the Company, but its army turned back, and the war was decided in Burma.