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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

'British troops drive a Burmese army before them as they race towards Rangoon's towering Shwedagon Pagoda during the Second Anglo-Burmese War in I852. The soldiers were astonished to find the Buddhist temple, focus of the country's religious life, covered in pure gold.'

http://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/burma/shwedagonpagoda.htm

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