Brigadier-General M‘Creagh was detached with three companies against the island of _Cheduba_, on the Arracan coast, where he landed on the 14th of May, captured the Burmese stockade by storm on the 17th, made the rajah, or governor, prisoner, and reduced this fertile and productive island to submission: in which service the THIRTEENTH had Brevet Major Thornhill, Ensign Kershaw, one serjeant, one bugler, and eighteen rank and file wounded. The Burmese army continued in great force in the neighbourhood of Rangoon, under the protection of fortifications of wood, called stockades, and of the thick jungle which covered the face of the country. On the 28th of May, a hundred rank and file of the THIRTEENTH regiment, commanded by Major William H. Dennie, with a detachment of the thirty-eighth, advanced, under Sir Archibald Campbell, and attacked two stockades by storm, without ladders, captured the works with the bayonet, and killed about five hundred of the enemy. The THIRTEENTH had Lieutenant A. Howard killed; one bugler, and nine rank and file wounded. When driven from one series of stockades, the Burmese erected another at a greater distance. On the 10th of June, two companies of the THIRTEENTH, under Major Robert Henry Sale, advanced with other troops, to attack the enemy’s stronghold at _Kemmendine_; when about two miles from the town, the head of the column was stopped by a strong stockade, full of men, against which the British artillery opened a well-directed fire, and in half an hour a breach was made. The forty-first, and part of the Madras European regiment, stormed the works in front; and the detachments of the THIRTEENTH and thirty-eighth assaulted the rear face which was ten feet high. The soldiers being encouraged and animated by the spirited conduct of Major Sale, who showed an example of valour and personal agility, climbed the works, one helping another up, and entering simultaneously with the party by the breach, they bayoneted every man that opposed them. The loss of the THIRTEENTH was limited to one private soldier killed; Lieutenant Petry, and ten soldiers wounded.[12] This point being gained, the column advanced about a mile, and at four o’clock in the afternoon, took up a position against the enemy’s principal stockade; batteries were erected during the night, the artillery opened a heavy fire at daylight, and the Burmese forsook their works and fled. On the 17th of June, Brigadier-General M‘Creagh joined with the three companies from the island of Cheduba. In the beginning of July numerous columns of Burmese warriors were seen in front of the British position, when four companies were ordered to make a reconnoissance under the command of Major Dennie: they discovered the enemy in force on the plains of Kumaroot, and returned with the loss of one man wounded. On the same day, the Burmese attacked the British posts, but were repulsed: the THIRTEENTH had two men wounded.