Siamese-Cambodian War 1622
Angkor Wat (Cambodia)
| date | Spring 1622 to mid- 1622 |
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| place | Cambodia |
| Casus Belli | Cambodia declared its independence from Siam, which it did not accept and sent troops |
| output | Siam's invasion of Cambodia failed and Cambodia regained its independence |
| consequences | Cambodia was approaching Annam ( Vietnam ) |
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King Songtham (also Intharacha II) |
King Chettha
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The Siamese-Cambodian War of 1622 was a military conflict between the Siamese Kingdom of Ayutthaya and Cambodia ( Khmer ).
prehistory
As a result of the Siamese-Cambodian War in 1603, Prince Srisuphanma ascended the Khmer throne as King Barom Reachea IV under the suzerainty of the Siamese, whose King Naresuan (r. 1590 to 1605) had made troops available to the prince. Barom Reachea IV died in 1618, and his son Chettha (ruled 1618-1625) succeeded him to the throne. A short time later, he declared the independence of the Khmer from Ayutthaya and carefully approached Annam (in today's Vietnam).
course
The king of Ayutthaya, Songtham (ruled 1610 to 1628), did not accept the unilateral declaration by the Khmer and sent a force across the sea to reconnect the land to Ayutthaya. In the following, the fleet had no influence on the resulting fighting. The land forces could not develop either, as they were ambushed by Khmer leaders and suffered heavy losses.
Songtham then turned to both the British and Dutch East India Companies for help with another expedition, but the Europeans remained passive. Ayutthaya had lost control of the Khmer. In the meantime, Chettha had married a princess from the Vietnamese Nguyen and allowed the Vietnamese to settle in southern Cambodia.
consequences
Subsequently, Cambodia always tried to keep Siam and Vietnam at a distance on the one hand and to play them off against each other on the other. For about a century there was relative calm between the Siamese and the Khmer.
literature
- Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod: Encyclopedia of Wars, Vol. 3 . Facts on File, New York 2005, ISBN 0-8160-2854-0 (3 volumes in total).
- WAR Wood : A History of Siam. From the earliest times to the year Ad 1781, with a supplement dealing with more recent events . AMS-Press, New York 1974, ISBN 0-404-54880-6 (reprint of the Bangkok 1933 edition).
Individual evidence
- ^ Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod: Encyclopedia of wars, Vol. 3 , p. 1039.