Minkhaung Nawrahta was a general of the Royal Burmese Army of the Konbaung Dynasty during the reign of King Alaungpaya.
14 Facts About Minkhaung Nawrahta
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Minkhaung Nawrahta is best known for his rearguard defense in the Burmese-Siamese War in Siam as the Burmese forces rushed back a dying Alaungpaya back home.
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Minkhaung Nawrahta believed he would be executed by the new king with whom he had a long history of enmity.
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Minkhaung Nawrahta was a childhood friend of Aung Zeya who was a son of chief of Moksobo.
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Minkhaung Nawrahta led one of the Burmese armies in the 1758 Manipuri campaign that made Manipur a tributary state of Burma.
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Minkhaung Nawrahta was one of the lead commanders in Alaungpaya's invasion of Siam in 1759.
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Minkhaung Nawrahta spread them out and it was two days before the Siamese realized that the main Burmese army had left.
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Minkhaung Nawrahta's men watched the ring closing round them, and fearing to be cut off, begged him to let them fight further back.
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Minkhaung Nawrahta sent for two of the generals he disliked.
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Minkhaung Nawrahta too was concerned because of the old enmity between him and Naungdawgyi.
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Minkhaung Nawrahta deliberately slowed down his rearguard back to Shwebo.
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Minkhaung Nawrahta decided to rebel even though he had no definite plan of rebellion.
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Minkhaung Nawrahta had been a simple villager in 1752, and he had fought in all the campaigns, shoulder to shoulder with Alaungpaya.
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Minkhaung Nawrahta looked back on those eventful years, the victories that had come his way, and the titles and the honors that had been showered upon him by his grateful master.