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Rangoon to Mandalay was a 700 km (435 mi) trip, and during the Third Anglo-Burmese War of 1885, 9,000 British and Indian soldiers were transported by a fleet of paddle steamers ("the old flotilla" of the poem) and other boats to Mandalay from Rangoon. Guerrilla warfare followed the occupation of Mandalay, and British regiments remained in Burma ...
Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem called "Mandalay" (1890), which is the origin of the phrase "on the road to Mandalay". [84] In 1907, the poem was set to music by Oley Speaks as On the Road to Mandalay. Speaks' version was widely recorded. Among the best known renditions is the one by Frank Sinatra on Come Fly With Me. Bithia Mary Croker wrote a ...
The Road to Mandalay can refer to: "Mandalay" (poem), of 1890 by Rudyard Kipling, whose chorus begins "On the road to Mandalay" "On the Road to Mandalay" (song), a 1907 musical setting by Oley Speaks of the Kipling poem; The Road to Mandalay, a 1917 novel by Bithia Mary Croker; The Road to Mandalay, a 1926 film directed by Tod Browning
Oley Speaks set to music a portion of Kipling's poem Mandalay, 1890, [2] from Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses, published in 1892 and 1896. The song comprises three verses of Kipling's poem: the first, second and sixth. The text of the song is a first-person description by a British soldier in 19th-century Burma, who has returned to Britain.
Mandalay, an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling; Mandalay: Recipes and Tales from a Burmese Kitchen, a 2019 cookbook by MiMi Aye; Mandalay (band), a 1995–2002 British trip hop group "Mandalay", a song by Gerard Francis Cobb, based on Kipling's poem "Mandalay", a 1990 song by Electric Light Orchestra from Afterglow
Mandalay (poem) O. The Old Bush Road; The Old Whim Horse; The Overflow of Clancy; P. The Poets of the Tomb; U. Up the Country; W. When Your Pants Begin to Go; The ...
Gunga Din" (/ ˌ ɡ ʌ ŋ ɡ ə ˈ d iː n /) is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling set in British India. The poem was published alongside "Mandalay" and "Danny Deever" in the collection "Barrack-Room Ballads". The poem is much remembered for its final line "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din". [1]
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