────────┬──────────┬──────────┬────────┬──────────┬────────────┬──────────── Company.│Battalion.│afterwards│Company.│Battalion.│ Captains. │Lieutenants. ────────┼──────────┼──────────┼────────┼──────────┼────────────┼──────────── │ │ │ │ │ │G. R. Scott, 7 │ 3 │ │ 3 │ 5 │Timbrell │ Rawlinson, │ │ │ │ │ │ R. G. │ │ │ │ │ │ MacGregor. ────────┼──────────┼──────────┼────────┼──────────┼────────────┼──────────── │ │ │ │ │ │ Counsell, 8 │ 3 │ │ 4 │ 5 │Biddulph[78]│ E. Blake, │ │ │ │ │ │ O’Hanlon, │ │ │ │ │ │ McDonald. ────────┴──────────┴──────────┴────────┴──────────┴────────────┴──────────── On the 10th May the fleet reached Rangoon, and, overcoming a very faint resistance by a few broadsides from the _Liffey_, the troops landed and took possession. They found it deserted by its inhabitants, and incapable of affording either subsistence or the means of advancing. No choice was left; nothing could be done till the cold weather, except shelter themselves against the approaching rainy season, to which the Bengal monsoon is but as summer showers in comparison. During this season, the troops suffered much from exposure, from bad and insufficient supplies, harassment by the enemy, and continual petty attacks on stockades, so that when the season for operations arrived, it found an army of invalids, instead of one fit to take the field. The Burmese recalled their army under Bundoola from Arracan, and it arrived in the vicinity of Rangoon in November. Rangoon was invested, but, awaiting reinforcements and supplies, Sir Archibald Campbell offered little opposition, contenting himself with strengthening his own position and placing all his artillery in battery, to bear on the enemy’s trenches. Things remained thus till the 5th December, when the guns all opening, the columns moved out under cover of their fire, attacked and overcame the enemy’s left; Bundoola, however, rallied again, and pushed on his attack on the Shevé-da-gon pagoda. On the morning of the 7th the attack was renewed; every gun that would bear on the enemy was opened, and continued firing till noon, when the infantry moving out, completely routed the enemy. He rallied in a strong position at Kokaing, from which, on the 13th, he was with difficulty dislodged, and in which action the regiment lost a fine young officer, Lieutenant O’Hanlon, who, volunteering with the body-guard, was shot in a gallant charge, made to cover a column hard pressed by the enemy.