Chevalier de Beauregard

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Siege of Bangkok (1688)

The Chevalier de Beauregard (* approx. 1665; † approx. 1692) was a French officer of the 17th century who served in Siam , today's Thailand . He made it to the governor of Bangkok and Mergui , but was imprisoned during the Siamese Revolution in 1688 .

De Beauregard went to Siam in 1685 with the embassy of the Chevalier de Chaumont . He was transferred to the garrison of the then little important port city of Bangkok under the command of Claude de Forbin . In July 1686 the fort was attacked by a gang of pirates from Makassar . During the fight Forbin slit open the stomach of a pirate, but the pirate was able to stuff his entrails back and sew up his stomach, so to speak the first documented operation based on the Western model in Siam (for a more modern variant, see Dan Beach Bradley ).

Capture of de Beauregard and others at Tavoy (1688)

In 1687 Beauregard was briefly governor of Bangkok. After the Mergui massacre in July 1687, he was appointed governor there, replacing the Englishman Samuel White. After the Siamese Revolution in 1688, in which, following the death of the foreigner-friendly King Narai , Europeans in particular were expelled from Siam, Beauregard was in the rear under de Bruant. On June 24th, the French had to give up the Mergui fortress. Beauregard and Bruant escaped under fire to the Siamese warship Mergui , leaving many dead. In Tavoy , Beauregard was finally caught together with four soldiers and the Jesuit Pierre d'Espagnac when they wanted to get supplies at the market. The prisoners may have been taken into slavery .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History and evolution of western medicine in Thailand , Somrat Charuluxananana, Vilai Chentanez, Asian Biomedicine Vol. 1 No. 1 June 2007, p.98 ( PDF  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.md.chula.ac.th  
  2. ↑ John Anderson: English intercourse with Siam in the seventeenth century . 2000, p. 365.
  3. ↑ John Anderson: English intercourse with Siam in the seventeenth century . 2000, p. 380 [1]

literature

  • Michael Smithies: Three military accounts of the 1688 revolution in Siam . Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2002. ISBN 974-524-005-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Beauregard, Chevalier de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French officer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1665
DATE OF DEATH around 1692