It's a book that got made into a film or 2 but wow, I had to laugh. While I know he was being endearing, that was the first public comment (good or bad!) we have received haha!
Everyone on the busy rush hour train around us just did the "white people smile"* after he said it. I laughed though.
*The smile:
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2^nd June 1841
The princes of Siam had been sent to Sweden and construction of a home reminiscent of Siam had begun, and it was the will of king Karl XIV Johan that an envoy was to be sent to Siam to return the favour. A great ship and modern ocean streamer, HMS Upptäckten, was prepared for the trip.
Eric Mässing became the designated diplomat to go there along with a group of botanists and zoologists who were hoping to document a part of Asia. It was a scientific envoy of sorts.
The story is a King of Siam would give white elephants to courtiers to bankrupt them. Apparently the term was introduced by Ezra Cornell in 1828, but was it based on a real story about the King of Siam or was it just a story and Siam was used to give it an exotic context?
Pretense;
Japan and Siam/Kingdom of Ayutthaya have had rising tensions with one another from the 1580s' onwards. Soon, war breaks out.
Let's say that, somehow, both the armies of King Naresuan and Toyotomi Hideyoshi showed up to face each other. Both armies have 50,000 soldiers for round 1. Round 2 will have both armies have 100,000 soldiers.
King Naresuan's army(Ayutthayan/Siamese Army):
- 20,000 foot soldiers/infantry
- 10,000 musketeers
- 7,000 spearmen
- 3,000 archers
- 9,800 cavalry
- 150 cannons
- 50 war elephants
Toyotomi Hideyoshi's army(Japanese Army):
- 20,000 foot soldiers/infantry
- 15,000 musketeers
- 5,000 spearmen
- 2,000 archers
- 7,900 cavalry
- 100 cannons
Battlefield; hills to the north, flat land stretching east to west and south, decent size River a mile southwest, large forest in the east.
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So I’m “watching” (more like skipping to the interesting scenes) the Thai lakorn/historical drama Sri Ayodhaya and in one episode, this one professor said that Ayutthaya was an incredibly wealthy and powerful kingdom and the city itself was also very well defended and wealthy too due to Ayutthaya being an extremely crucial and important trading city. In the latest episode, one other visiting professor also states that King Ekkathat commanded a large army and the city itself was very well defended.
If that’s the case, then how was it that Hongsawadee/Burma was able to sack and pillage Ayutthaya and burn it to the ground? I mean, shit, according to this one article/book that I read, people at the time saw the sacking of Ayutthaya as the literal apocalypse, and I could easily understand why. If I was Ayutthayan/Siamese and I was alive at the time and I saw Hongsawadee troops burn houses down and loot everything in sight (IIRC, some Hongsawadee soldiers even looted Buddha statues that were made of gold), I’d think that the world was ending, especially if I was led to believe up until that point that Ayutthaya was one of the greatest cities in the world that was forged by the Heavens or whatever.
So how was it that the Burmese were able to take and burn Ayutthaya to the ground? I heard that it was due to the political instability of the royal court of Ayutthaya along with incompetent rulers and power struggles/corruption but is that it?
I'm very much interested in Thai history(especially the reign of King Naresuan who I consider the "George Washington" of ancient Siam), and I'm also a big fan of Thai historical films focusing in on the era.
From what I've read and seen, it appeared that Siam at that time was a powerful nation, and commanded respect from local powers,European, and East Asian nations.
But on the world stage(at that time), exactly how strong of a nation was Siam(and the other SE Asian nations)? Did they hold a formidable military with a strong economy and an overall powerful nation, or were they just regional powers?
So I’m “watching” (more like skipping to the interesting scenes of) the Thai lakorn/historical drama Sri Ayodhaya and in one episode, this one professor said that Ayutthaya was an incredibly wealthy and powerful kingdom and the city itself was also very well defended and wealthy too due to Ayutthaya being an extremely crucial and important trading city. In the latest episode, one other visiting professor also states that King Ekkathat commanded a large army and the city itself was very well defended.
If that’s the case, then how was it that Hongsawadee/Burma was able to sack and pillage Ayutthaya and burn it to the ground? I mean, shit, according to this one article/book that I read, people at the time saw the sacking of Ayutthaya as the literal apocalypse, and I could easily understand why. If I was Ayutthayan/Siamese and I was alive at the time and I saw Hongsawadee troops burn houses down and loot everything in sight (IIRC, some Hongsawadee soldiers even looted Buddha statues that were made of gold), I’d think that the world was ending, especially if I was led to believe up until that point that Ayutthaya was one of the greatest cities in the world that was forged by the Heavens or whatever.
So how was it that the Burmese were able to take and burn Ayutthaya to the ground? I heard that it was due to the political instability of the royal court of Ayutthaya along with incompetent rulers and power struggles/corruption but is that it?
So I’m “watching” (more like skipping to the interesting scenes) the Thai lakorn/historical drama Sri Ayodhaya and in one episode, this one professor said that Ayutthaya was an incredibly wealthy and powerful kingdom and the city itself was also very well defended and wealthy too due to Ayutthaya being an extremely crucial and important trading city. In the latest episode, one other visiting professor also states that King Ekkathat commanded a large army and the city itself was very well defended.
If that’s the case, then how was it that Hongsawadee/Burma was able to sack and pillage Ayutthaya and burn it to the ground? I mean, shit, according to this one article/book that I read, people at the time saw the sacking of Ayutthaya as the literal apocalypse, and I could easily understand why. If I was Ayutthayan/Siamese and I was alive at the time and I saw Hongsawadee troops burn houses down and loot everything in sight (IIRC, some Hongsawadee soldiers even looted Buddha statues that were made of gold), I’d think that the world was ending, especially if I was led to believe up until that point that Ayutthaya was one of the greatest cities in the world that was forged by the Heavens or whatever.
So how was it that the Burmese were able to take and burn Ayutthaya to the ground? I heard that it was due to the political instability of the royal court of Ayutthaya along with incompetent rulers and power struggles/corruption but is that it?
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