The commander in chief of the Burmese army, Maha Bandula, is supported by twelve of the country's best divisions, including one under his personal command, all totaling ten thousand men and five hundred horses.

His general staff includes some of the country's most decorated soldiers, men like the Lord of Salay and the governors of Danyawaddy, Wuntho and Taungoo.

Bandula's plan is to attack the British on two fronts: Chittagong from Arakan in the southeast, and Sylhet from Cachar and Jaintia in the north.

Bandula personally commands the Arakan theater while Uzana commands the Cachar and Jaintia theater.

Early in the war, battle hardened Burmese forces are able to push back the British forces because the Burmese, who have been fighting in the jungles of Manipur and Assam for nearly a decade, are more familiar with the terrain.

Uzana had already defeated the British units in Cachar and Jaintia in January 1824.

In May, about four thousand Burmese forces led by U Sa, Lord Myawaddy, fight their way into Bengal, and defeat British troops at the Battle of Ramu, ten miles east of Cox's Bazar on May 17, 1824.