Ywa, now styled as Thado Minsaw, quickly proved a capable military commander-certainly, the most capable of Alaungpaya's sons, and became a top commander in his own right.
Indeed, throughout the rest of the 1750s, Hsinbyushin was a key top commander in Alaungpaya's campaigns which by 1759 had reunited all of Burma (and Manipur), and driven out the French and the British who had provided arms to Hanthawaddy.