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of victories over he left
Alaungpaya's P'ya Dala, Chieng-
mai with several hundred followers, and offered his
services to the Burmese dis-
usurper. Alaungpaya,
trusting him, detained him in custody until his death,
which occurred in His career was
1758. certainly
a and romantic one.
strange
In the year 1750 King Boromokot was called upon to
interfere in the affairs of Cambodia. King Rama T'ibodi
of that country, who succeeded to the throne in 1748,
was less than a later a rival
expelled year by claimant,
Prince Satt'a, with the aid of a Cochin-Chinese army.
A Siamese force was sent to set matters but Prince
right,
the brother of Prince made formal
Ong Eng, Satt'a,
submission to Siam, and Prince Satt'a was allowed to
remain on the throne. On his death a few months
later, King Rama T'ibodi was once more placed on the
throne of Cambodia. It would appear that at this period
the right of Siam to regulate the succession was not
in Cambodia,
seriously disputed by any party
In March 1752 the Uparaja of Pegu, a brother of
Ava and took the of
P'ya Dala, captured away King
Burma as a to Hanthawadi. 1 The whole of
prisoner
Burma thus fell under the sway of King P'ya Dala, and
it seemed as though the power of Burma had vanished
for ever. Immediately, however, the standard of rebel-
lion was raised by the petty Burmese headman of the
of Moksobo called In a short
village (now Shwebo).
time this man, usually known by his assumed title of
Alaungpaya, had collected an army of five thousand
men. In December 1753 he retook Ava, and in May
1757 Hanthawadi was captured, and P'ya Dala taken

1
According to Burmese history the King of Ava was executed in 1754 for
Dala. A Peguan chronicle, however, states that he
conspiring against P'ya
lived until 1757 and died of a broken heart during the siege of Hanthawadi by
Alaungpaya.