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as well as a fleet of boats. Cambodian
large history
gives the numbers of the invading army as 50,000,
Battambang fell without offering any real resistance.
Pursat, under the command of P'ya Sawank'alok, 1
held out but was overwhelmed the
longer, by superior
force of the Siamese. At Prince
Boribun, Srisup'anma,
the brother of the of was stationed with
King Cambodia,
an army of 30,000 men. The Prince fled to Lowek as
soon as he felt that the situation was critical.
becoming
Boribun and the victorious of Siam advanced
fell, King
to the Here he was two other
capital. joined by armies,
which had advanced and whose
by northerly routes,
commanders were able to that
report Siemrap, Bassac,
and all the other important cities in the north of
Cambodia had been
captured.
King Satt'a of Cambodia was summoned to surrender
and swear to Siam. He the
fealty replied by casting
envoy into prison, and opening a sharp fire against the
Siamese. A determined resistance was made by the
Cambodians, and it was not until the month of July
1594 that Lowek was taken by assault. Both sides
suffered heavy losses.
with his two sons and his female
King Satt'a, relations,
fled to northern Cambodia. The following year they
retired into the of the of
territory King Luang P'rabang,
where King Satt'a died, an exile, in 1596. His eldest
son did not survive him. 1
long
1
Probably a son of the Cambodian Prince who was adopted by King P'rajai,
and who took part in the conspiracy against the usurper K'un Worawongsa in 1548.
Post-Bangkok versions of Siamese history narrate that King Satt'a was
1
captured and beheaded, and that King Naresuen washed his feet in the blood of
the Cambodian monarch. The author believes this story to be a myth, for the
following reasons :
(a) The history of Luang Prasoet, written in 1688 less than a hundred
years after the events in question mentions the capture of Prince Snsup'anma,
but says nothing about King Satt'a. If both King and Prince were captured,
it would be absurd to mention only the Prince.
