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- they were willing to give their lives
to defend their honour and home.
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They were indeed brave.
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If all in this country are as
brave as those from Bang Rajan, -
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- Ayudhya will be
difficult to conquer.
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During the burmese army's
conquest against Ayudhya -
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- all the siamese soldiers fleet
and evacuated the city.
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The very same army had been
hold back for five month -
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- by a single small village.
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Eight times during 1765-66
the inhabitants of Bang Rajan resisted -
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- the burmese army's attack.
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When Bang Rajan finnaly gave in,
The burmese forces surrounded Ayudhya.
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Within a year the city was destroyed
and the siamese forces beaten.
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Siam remained fragmented, until
the future king Taksin the Great, -
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- united the Siamese people
in one kingdom.
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The Siamese people
had regained their freedom, -
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- and they have kept it since.
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Puhhh...hard work done