Second Burmese invasion of Assam

01Phulpanisiga

The Burmese army, under a commander the Assamese chronicles call Kiamingi, with the Kachari-born Patalang as guide, came over the Patkai early in 1819. Jagannath Dhekial Phukan met it at Phulpanisiga near Janji on 15 February 1819 and beat it back with loss; the Assamese accounts put the Burmese dead at about three hundred. But the Ahom army did not pursue. It returned to Jorhat, and the news of an enemy still in the field set off panic in the capital.

02Chandrakanta restored

Ruchinath and Purandar Singha fled down the Brahmaputra to Guwahati, and the Burmese entered Jorhat two days later. On 9 March 1819 Chandrakanta Singha was crowned again, and the officials who had backed Ruchinath were put to death. The Burmese commander left in April, leaving a garrison under Mingimaha Tilwa. Patalang chased Ruchinath through Nagaon and pushed him out past the Assam Choky, the frontier post near Goalpara. The Burmese troops finally went home in January 1820.