Bassein

Numerous torrents pour down from the two boundary ranges, and unite in the plains to form large streams, which fall into the chief streams of the district, which are the Irrawaddy, Hlaing and Bassein, all of them branches of the Irrawaddy.

The state came under the British government after the treaty of Bassein in 1802.

Martaban was taken on the 5th of April 1852, and Rangoon and Bassein shortly afterwards.

Three other universities at Bassein, Moulmein and Mandalay were padlocked by the government.

One force crossed the vein-like little streams that slice up lower Burma and reached Bassein, just over the coastal hills from the Bay of Bengal.