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HISTORY & MONARCHY

 

 

 

  Taksin

 

Thailand

Statues of King Taksin, who after the fall of Krung Sri Ayutthaya in 1767, then a general, raised an army that drove out the invading Burmese.

 

Afterwards he became King of Siam and made Thonburi its new capital.

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  Taksin