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CHAPTER VI

REIGNS OF KING BOROMORAJA II AND KING BOROMA
TRAILOKANAT

KING BOROMORAJA II, whose accession to the throne of
Siam was due to such an to
extraordinary event, proved
be a warlike and capable monarch.
In 14$* war broke out with Cambodia. The Siamese
invaded that Kingdom and invested the capital, which
was taken after a siege of seven months. The King of
Cambodia, T'ammasok, died during the siege, and the
King of Siam set up his own son, the Prince of Int'aburi,
as King of Cambodia.
After the retirement of the Siamese army, the Prince
of Int'aburi died to Cambodian he
according history
was murdered and a Cambodian Prince was appointed
with the title of T'irat Rama
King, Boromoraja T'ibodi,
without on the of the Siamese.
apparently opposition part
This King of Cambodia moved the capital to Phnom Penh. 1
King Boromoraja II brought back from Cambodia,
after the invasion, a of bronze of
quantity images animals,
including one of a sacred cow, which may still be seen at
P'rabat. He also a vast number of
captured prisoners.
In Prince Ramesuen, eldest son of Boro-
1438 King
was Governor of P'itsanulok ; this
moraja II, appointed
1
Visitors to Angkor Wat and Angkor Tom sometimes wonder why the ancient
Cambodian capital was abandoned. The reason is simple. It was dangerously
near the Siamese frontier. Phnom Penh was not the capital of Cambodia for
long, being superseded by Lowek. In the nineteenth century Phnom Penh
again became the capital, and remains so till the present time.
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