<P> On 30 November, in what turned out be the biggest mistake of his career, Bandula ordered a frontal attack on British positions . The British, with far superior weaponry, withstood several Burmese charges at the Shwedagon fort, cutting down men by the thousands . By 7 December, the British troops, supported by rocket fire, had begun to gain the upper hand . On 15 December, the Burmese were driven out of their last remaining stronghold at Kokine . In the end, only 7,000 of the 30,000 Burmese soldiers returned . </P> <P> Bandula fell back to his rear base at Danubyu, a small town not far from Yangon, in the Irrawaddy delta . Having lost experienced men in Yangon, the Burmese forces now numbered about 10,000, of mixed quality, including some of the king's best soldiers but also many untrained and barely armed conscripts . The stockade itself stretched a mile along the riverbank, and was made up of solid teak beams no less than 15 feet high . </P> <P> In March 1825, a four thousand strong British force supported by a flotilla of gun boats attacked Danubyu . The first British attack failed, and Bandula attempted a counter charge, with foot soldiers, cavalry and 17 fighting elephants . But the elephants were stopped by rocket fire and the cavalry found it impossible to move against the sustained British artillery fire . </P> <P> On 1 April, the British launched a major attack, pounding down on the town with their heavy guns and raining their rockets on every part of the Burmese line . Bandula was killed by a mortar shell . Bandula had walked around the fort to boost the morale of his men, in his full insignia under a glittering golden umbrella, discarding the warnings of his generals that he would prove an easy target for the enemy's guns . After Bandula's death, the Burmese evacuated Danubyu . </P>

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