Nai Thong Saeng Yai (นายทองแสงใหญ่)

Thai. ‘Mr. Big Gleaming Gold’. Name of one of the eleven heroic leaders who in 1767, at the end of the Ayutthaya period, fought the invading Burmese in defence of the Bang Rajan fort in Singburi (fig.). In order to deceive the enemy and lure their attention away from the main camp which was full of old men, women, young children and sick people, as well as soldiers wounded in battle, he set up an auxiliary camp with a selected number of able-bodied men, from where he fought the Burmese army with all his might. In iconography, he is usually depicted holding a spear. 回