Question

name two reason why british attacked the Burmese​

Answer 1

Explanation:

This war was the longest and most expensive war in British Indian history. Fifteen thousand European and Indian soldiers died, together with an unknown number of Burmese military and civilian casualties. The high cost of the campaign to the British, 5–13 million pounds sterling (£400 million – £1.1 billion as of 2019),[5][6] contributed to a severe economic crisis in British India which cost the East India Company its remaining privileges.[7]

Though once strong enough to threaten the interests of British India (especially with respect to the eastern border regions of Assam, Manipur, and Arakan), the Burmese Empire now suffered "the beginning of the end" of its independence.[6] They would be crushed for years to come by repaying the heavy indemnity of one million pounds (then US$5 million), a large sum at that time.[4] The British, eventually waging two more wars against a much-weakened Burma, would swallow up the entire country by 1885.