TO THE COURT OF AVA. 
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da Point, the European soldiers had scarcely 
landed, when the Eurmans abandoned their 
stockades, and took to flight. The casualties 
on our side were very few, nor did the Bur¬ 
mese sustain any considerable loss. 
On the same day with the attack on Pagoda 
Point, the 8th of July, took place one of the 
most important affairs of the Burmese war, an 
affair which first convinced the Burmans of 
their infinite inferiority to European troops. 
The principal Burman force was encamped at 
Kamarot, a place about seven miles distant 
from Rangoon, where they had thrown up a 
series of stockades. The Kyi Wungyi, the com¬ 
mander in chief, whose tardiness in not driving 
the invaders out of the country was complain¬ 
ed of at Court, had been superseded by Tlia- 
ongba Wungyi, described as a brave but rash 
man. He had not been above three days in 
command of the army, when his entrenched 
camp was attacked at a moment when he was 
preparing, according to his own belief, a formi¬ 
dable assault on the British lines. The esca¬ 
lade was so sudden, that the Burmese had no 
time to escape, and a great number of them 
perished, Thaongba Wungyi himself among 
the number. The report of this affair at Ava, 
as was afterwards well ascertained, struck the 
