Hard-pressed by the Huns, the Goths again crossed the Danube during the reign of Valens ( 376 ) and with his permission settled in Moesia.

Hard-pressed Sava decided to to follow his predecessor's example by seeking help from Orthodox Russia, offering to provide Serbian troops to serve in the Imperial Russian armies in return for some form of Russian protectorate over Montenegro.

Hard-pressed peasants and vagrants were then induced into military service with benefits of exemption from both taxation and corvée labor service, as well as provisions for farmland and dwellings for dependents who accompanied soldiers on the frontier.

In Siam, regional power struggles among several kingdoms in the region led to a large diaspora of ethnic Lao between the 1700s-1800s by Siamese rulers to settle large areas of the Siamese kingdom's northeast region, where Lao ethnicity is still a major factor in 2012.

* 1785 – Invading Siamese forces attempt to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong River by the Tay Son in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút.

In the case of Thailand, muay Thai evolved from the older muay boran ( ancient boxing ), an unarmed combat method which would have been used by Siamese soldiers after losing their weapons in battle.

The hill tribe people in Indochina were " hunted incessantly and carried off as slaves by the Siamese ( Thai ), the Anamites ( Vietnamese ), and the Cambodians.

" A Siamese military campaign in Laos in 1876 was described by a British observer as having been " transformed into slave-hunting raids on a large scale ".

The oldest known mention of their existence in the region by the exonym Siamese is in a 12th century A. D. inscription at the Khmer temple complex of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, which refers to syam, or " dark brown " people.

The Siamese revolution of 1932 was led by a group of young military officers and civil servants.

Sending a volunteer corps of the Siamese Expeditionary Force ; composed of 1, 233 modern-equipped and trained men commanded by Field Marshal Prince Chakrabongse Bhuvanath.

In the late 1980s, they created the epic recording God in Three Persons, a story about the exploitation of two Siamese twins with healing powers by a male dominant force and The King & Eye, a surreal biography of Elvis Presley and the birth of rock and roll.

During the war, the city of Vientiane is obliterated by Siamese forces.

* April 6 – first New Year's Day of the solar calendar adopted by Siamese King Chulalongkorn with the 106th anniversary of Bangkok's founding in 1782 as its epoch ( reference date ).

* Anna Leonowens accepts an offer made by the Siamese consul in Singapore, Tan Kim Ching, to teach the wives and children of Mongkut, the Kking of Siam.

During the war, the city of Vientiane is obliterated by Siamese forces.

* January 20 – Invading Siamese forces, attempt to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong River by the Tay Son in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút.

The rest of Burma was to be under Japanese control, On 10 May 1942, the Thai Phayap Army entered Burma's eastern Shan State, which had been claimed by Siamese kingdoms.

* Khorat Thai, spoken by about 400, 000 ( 1984 ) in Nakhon Ratchasima occupies a linguistic position somewhere between Siamese Thai and Isan on a dialect continuum, and may be considered a variant of either.

In the 1930s, Siam engaged France in a series of talks concerning the repatriation of Siamese provinces held by the French.

In 1862, Leonowens accepted an offer made by the Siamese consul in Singapore, Tan Kim Ching, to teach the wives and children of Mongkut, King of Siam.

* The Serengeti cat is developed from crosses with Oriental Shorthair or Siamese, with the aim to produce a domestic cat mimicking the appearance of an African serval, without actually incorporating serval genes by hybridization.

Other movies influenced by or making use of Uncle Tom's Cabin include Dimples ( a 1936 Shirley Temple film ), Uncle Tom's Uncle, ( a 1926 Our Gang episode ), its 1932 remake Spanky, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I ( in which a ballet called " Small House of Uncle Thomas " is performed in traditional Siamese style ), and Gangs of New York ( in which Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis's characters attend an imagined wartime adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin ).

Between the mid-17th century to mid-18th century, as Chenla was weakened by internal strife and Siamese invasions, the Nguyễn Lords used various means, political marriage, diplomatic pressure, political and military favors, to gain the area around present day Saigon and the Mekong Delta.

Its long-term strategy, however, is illustrated by the analogy of the three Siamese fighting fish Blofeld keeps in an aquarium in the film version of From Russia with Love.

* Chang and Eng Bunker ( 1811 – 1874 ), from Thailand ( formerly Siam ), joined by the areas around their xiphoid cartilages, but over time the join stretched ; the expression Siamese twins is derived from their case

Mount Airy was the residence of Chang and Eng Bunker ( 1811 – 1874 ), Siamese Twins joined by a band of cartilage at the chest ( xiphopagus ).

More than once I was confronted by professional gamblers, `` bookies '', loan `` sharks '', gangsters, `` thugs '' and `` finger men '' -- people of a class I did not even know existed -- to repay my husband's staggering losses, `` or else '' I shuddered to think that someone so dear to me could even associate with such a sinister milieu.

I should like to be satisfied before I depart, that we are going to repay to the old land some part of the debt we owe them by revealing more clearly than ever to them the new heavens.

In 2010 – 11 season Roma was administrated by UniCredit as Sensi family failed to repay the bank and the club was put into the market, which also saw Roma did not had major signing in 2010 – 11 season.

Isaac of York offers to repay his debt to the palmer by offering him a suit of armour and a war horse to participate in the tournament at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, where he was bound.

The Byzantine Emperor, Manuel II, had first secured a stipulation, that Mustafa should, if successful, repay him for his liberation by giving up a large number of important cities.

In the forward market, the speculators-strongly believing that the Baht would soon be devalued-bet against the currency by entering into contracts with dealers who would give U. S. Dollars in return for an agreement to repay a specific amount of Baht some months in the future.

Władysław promised to repay Vytautas for his support by restoring Samogitia to Lithuania in any future peace treaty.

Under the terms of the deals, if the Yeltsin government did not repay the loans by September 1996, the lender acquired title to the stock and could then resell it or take an equity position in the enterprise.

The inability to repay debt in an LBO can be caused by initial overpricing of the target firm and / or its assets.

Even if the debt is not secured by collateral, debt holders may still sue for bankruptcy, to ensure that the corporation's assets are used to repay the debt.

Other assets, if any, are sold ( liquidated ) by the interim trustee to repay creditors.

One factor in considering whether the U. S. Trustee can prevail in a challenge to the debtor's Chapter 7 filing is whether the debtor can otherwise afford to repay some or all of his debts out of disposable income in the five year time frame provided by Chapter 13.

In addition to toll roads, toll bridges and toll tunnels are also used by public authorities for revenue generation to repay for long-term debt issued to finance the building and maintenance of the toll facility.

At the end of the three months and with no way to repay his debts, Morrel is about to commit suicide when he learns that all of his debts have been mysteriously paid and that one of his lost ships has returned with a full cargo, secretly rebuilt and laden by Dantès.

Herakles was an honored guest in the House of Admetos at the time, and he offered to repay the king's hospitality by contending with Death itself for Alkestis ' life.

" A reading of the account as a " Whaler myth ," in a culture in which the Inuit were economically dependent on the mechanically superior products supplied by the European whalers, the story transforms material dependence on the white whaler into a reciprocal relationship, whereby the European comes back to repay his mother.

Once the position is covered, the short seller will not be affected by any subsequent rises or falls in the price of the securities, as he already holds the securities required to repay the lender.

Failure to repay such debts often resulted in imprisonment in debtor's prisons or the claiming of property by the government.

William Penn was granted land on March 4, 1681, by King Charles II to repay a debt owed to Penn ’ s father.

Not only did she pay the required school tuition plus room and board, she was directed by her father to sign a promissory note to repay him the income she would otherwise have brought the Stone household from teaching.

A request by McKinley for the names of the subscribers so he might repay them was refused by the trustees.

As particular “ conflicts of interest ,” they alleged bank affiliates had underwritten corporate and foreign government bonds to repay loans made by their affiliated bank or, in the opposite direction, banks had lent to or otherwise supported corporations that used the bank ’ s affiliate to underwrite their bonds.

According to a recent survey of microfinance borrowers in Ghana published by the Center for Financial Inclusion, more than one-third of borrowers surveyed reported struggling to repay their loans.

Although the LDS church held considerable real estate, estimated at approximately $ 60, 000 in equity by historian Larry T. Wimmer, it also needed liquidity to repay outstanding loans.