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Ratburi without serious In the
any very opposition.
same month the northern army, now greatly increased
by numbers of forced auxiliaries from Chiengmai,
and other Lao
Luang P'rabang, States, occupied P'ijai,
Raheng, Sawank'alok, and Suk'ot'ai, most of the inhabi-
tants at their P'itsanulok was the
fleeing approach.
scene of civil war between the Governor and Prince
Chit, a rebellious cousin of King Ekat'at. The Governor
got the upper hand, and killed the Prince. This
encouraged him to defy the Burmese, and they decided
not to attack him, but to leave P'itsanulok unmolested
for the time
being.
By December 1765 the Burmese were attacking
T'anaburi An named
(Bangkok). English sea-captain
1
Pauni, who had ingratiated himself with King Ekat'at
him with a lion and a rare kind of
by presenting bird,
undertook the defence of T'anaburi, and succeeded in
inflicting great damage on the Burmese. When, how-
ever, one of the T'anaburi forts was captured by the
enemy, and his ship was exposed to the fire of the
Pauni retired to Nont'aburi. There he
captured fort,
continued his stand. The Burmese induced
gallant
him, by a ruse, to send a landing-party ashore, which
was ambushed and attacked, one Englishman losing
his life in the 1
engagement.
Pauni now for more ammunition. This waa
applied
refused him, as the King was becoming jealous of his
and the saw in him a second
success, people potential
Phaulkon. So the brave sailed
English captain away,
to his fate the monarch in whose
leaving ungrateful
defence he had risked his life. Nont'aburi fell, and by
1
This is the name given by Turpin. Siamese writers refer to him as Alangka
Puni.
1 This is from Turpin, who wrote only a few years later and derived his infor-
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mation from the Jesuits, who were certainly not pro-English.