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District Bhamo

event1893

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Map of the district of Bhamo in northern Burma (Myanmar) featuring the Irrawaddy River, railways (proposed and under construction, including the future Burma State Railway), and mines (amber, jade).

District Ruby Mines

event1893

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Map of the district of Ruby Mines in northern Burma (Myanmar) featuring the Irrawaddy and Shweli rivers. High points are marked with their heights so they can be used for triangulation. As the name suggests, the district was known for its rubies.

Indo-China

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location_onCambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia

Topographical map of mainland Southeast Asia. Mountains are represented by hachures—short lines/dashes that give a sense of the shape and steepness of terrain—and settlements, roads and rivers are marked.

Portion of coal fields tract: Upper Chindwin district

event1892

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A map surveying coal fields close to the Chindwin River in Upper Burma (Myanmar). Mountains are shown by using hachures: short lines/dashes that give a sense of the shape and steepness of terrain. Survey stations are marked with their height.

Map to accompany preliminary report on the Chin-Lushai Country

event1892

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Topographical map of the mountainous border region between India and northwest Burma (Myanmar), showing rivers, lakes, villages, towns, roads and railways. High points are marked with their heights so they can be used for triangulation.

Stanford's Library Map of Asia

event1891

location_onBrunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnam

Southeast Asia is on sheet four of this map. British colonial territory—British Burma, the Straits Settlements, Sarawak, British North Borneo—is highlighted in red, with the Dutch East Indies, Spanish Philippines and Portuguese East Timor also shown.

Map to illustrate the operations about Sadon, Upper Burma

event1891

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Map of northeast Burma (Myanmar) bordering China's Yunnan Province. The title refers to ‘operations’ around the town of Sadon, possibly part of the Burmese resistance movement against British colonial rule in the late 19th century.

Map to illustrate Report on Frontier Expedition 1890-91

event1891

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Map of the border region between northeast Burma (Myanmar) and China's Yunnan Province, spread over two sheets. The Burma side is more detailed, featuring mountains, rivers and settlements, as well as roads and trade routes.

British Burma, Pegu division: With additions to railways up to 1891

event1891

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Topographical map of the Pegu Division of British Burma (Myanmar), spread over four sheets. In addition to mountains, forests, rivers and wetlands, rice fields, routes (road, railway, path, telegraph), villages and pagodas are marked.

Map to show lines of advance on Manipur

event1891

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Map of three routes taken by British troops through the mountains to the Indian city of Manipur (Imphal) during the Anglo-Manipur War of 1891. The map includes part of Burma to the east.

South eastern frontier: Reconnaissance survey of the route followed by Lieut. Daly's party towards the China frontier

eventc.1890-1891

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A map of the route of a British Army expedition near the border of Upper Burma with China. High points are marked with their heights so they can be used for triangulation. Settlements, rivers, trade routes and footpaths are also shown.

South eastern frontier

eventc.1890-1906

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Very detailed large-scale map of the southeast border of Burma (Myanmar) and Siam (Thailand), divided into districts. Spread over multiple sheets, seems incomplete (some sheets appear more than once, probably from different versions of the same map).

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