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Prince of Burma, with 50,000 men, was stationed at
Kamp'engp'et in order to assist in these preparations.
The Prince of Chiengmai established his camp at the
of near
village Sraket, Angt'ong.
Prince Naresuen was not the man to allow the Burmese
to out their under his nose. The
carry preparations very
Prince of Chiengmai was attacked and defeated several
times. in his was drawn into
Finally, April 1586, army
an ambush by means of a pretended retreat by an attack-
Siamese and he was
ing force, routed, losing 10,000 men,
1 20 and Tharawadi Min himself
elephants 400 boats.
into the hands of the Black
only narrowly escaped falling
Prince. He fled in the nick of all his
time, leaving
to be the Siamese. 1
personal property captured by
This was a most In
important victory. particular,
several thousands of Lao who could be used
prisoners,
to till the padi fields, were of incalculable value to Siam
at that time.
Siam now found herself in a better to resist a
position
Burmese invasion than had been the case since the
days
of
King Chakrap'at.
The King of Cambodia had sent an army, under the
command of his brother, Prince Srisup'anma, to assist
in the attack on the Prince of Chiengmai. This was the
first time that Siam and Cambodia had ever acted
and the result was unfortunate. The Black
together,
Prince considered that Prince Srisup'anma treated him
with the return to
discourtesy during journey Ayut'ia,
and retaliated the severed heads of some of the
by causing
Lao to be close to the boat of the
prisoners impaled
Cambodian Prince. The latter complained to his brother,
Burmese history makes no mention of this defeat, but we read in the Annals
1
of Chiengmai as follows : " In the year 947 (1585-6) the King of Burma ordered
Chiengmai to attack Ayut'ia. When the Chiengmai army got near Ayut la, the
Siamese defeated and scattered them. Many men, elephants, horses and arms
were lost. The army retreated to Chiengmai."