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.

In 1857, Norodom ( also known as Prince Phirom Borirak in Siam ) served in the Royal Siamese Army as military advisor, which later he was awarded Order of the White Elephant.

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

NOTE: Japan's distrust of Thailand extended to the point of rearming their ' ally ' with controlled munitions, including the famous Siamese Mauser, which was manufactured in an unusual caliber.

During this period, however, the Siamese economy suffered greatly from the Great Depression in 1920s-1930s-which was one of the causes leading to the Siamese Revolution in 1932.

Leonowens was a feminist and in her writings she tended to focus on what she saw as the subjugated status of Siamese women, including those sequestered within the Nang Harm, or royal harem.

The male, Poldhu, sired a female called Lamorna Cove who was later brought to America and crossed with a Siamese, giving the breed their long whippy tails and big ears.

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.

Nguyễn Ánh came back with 50, 000 Siamese troops to regain power, but was defeated at the Battle of Rạch Gầm – Xoài Mút and almost killed.

By 1865 there was a huge dancing platform, a rebuilt theatre, high-wire acts, pantomime, music hall and the original Siamese twins.

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

The studio was recommended to Love by Billy Corgan, who had recorded The Smashing Pumpkins ' album Siamese Dream there.

A special regiment was created for the Mons serving the Siamese king.

Ayutthaya (, RTGS: Anachak Ayutthaya, also Ayudhya, ) was a Siamese kingdom that existed from 1350 to 1767.

The Balinese was originally registered as a " long-haired Siamese ", and examples were known from the early 1920s.

The name was chosen on subjective grounds: Smith named the cats " Balinese " as she felt they showed the grace and beauty of Balinese dancers, and because " long-haired Siamese " seemed a rather clunky name for such graceful felines.

Two brothers, Po Khun Bangklanghao and Po Khun Phameung ( Po Khun was a Siamese title of high nobility ) took Sukhothai from Mon hands in 1239.

This act was tremendously successful for Barnum, and Zip was as big a draw to his American Museum as the famous Siamese twins, Chang and Eng Bunker.

Lippershey's application for a patent was mentioned at the end of a diplomatic report on an embassy to Holland from the Kingdom of Siam sent by the Siamese king Ekathotsarot: Ambassades du Roy de Siam envoyé à l ' Excellence du Prince Maurice, arrivé à La Haye le 10 Septemb.

He was known to the Siamese of his time as Phra Phuttha Chao Luang ( พระพ ุ ทธเจ ้ าหลวง – The Royal Buddha ).

His family, Bunnag, was a powerful one of a Persian descent dominating the Siamese politics since the reign of Rama I. Chulalongkorn then married four of his half-sisters.

Chulalongkorn was the first Siamese king to send the royal princes to Europe to be educated.

Seeing the seriousness of foreign affairs, Chulalongkorn visited Europe in 1897 ; he was the first Siamese monarch to do so, and he desired European recognition of Siam as a fully independent and honorable power.

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

* 1827 – Laos: King Anouvong of Vientiane declares war on Siam and successfully attacks Nakhon Ratchasima ( the Siamese later invade Vientiane and nearly destroy the whole city ).

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

Gia Long's successors ( see the Nguyễn Dynasty for details ) repelled the Siamese from Cambodia and even annexed Phnom Penh and surrounding territory in the war of 1831 to 1834, but were forced to relinquish these conquests in the war of 1841 to 1845.

When the Lao King Anouvong of Viantiane declared war on Siam, the local ruler Jao Phraya Lae changed allegiance and supported the Siamese troops.

The war was concluded when the Burmese crown prince Minchit Sra was killed by Siamese King Naresuan in personal combat on elephant in 1593.

Ironically, the main beneficiaries of this war were the Siamese.

In the late 1740s during the Burmese civil war of 1740 – 1757, Dawei along with the northern Tenasserim coast was taken over by the Siamese.

In 1842 – 1845 Siam waged a successful war with Vietnam, which tightened Siamese rule over Cambodia.

Siamese Governor and Burmese prisoner of war in British newspaper Illustrated London News in 1885.

The Thai name " Thung Yai Naresuan ", on the one hand, refers to the " big field " ( thung yai ) or savanna in the centre of the sanctuary, on the other hand to King Naresuan, a famous Siamese ruler who supposedly based his army in the area to wage war against Burma sometime during his reign of the Ayutthaya Kingdom from 1590 until his death in 1605.

But the Siamese refused Burmese demands, and prepared for war.

As a first step toward a war with the Siamese, Hsinbyushin decided to secure the northern and eastern flanks of Siam.

Hsinbyushin, who had held off renewing the Siamese war since 1770 because of the prevailing Chinese threat up north, was now forced to respond.

Hsinbyushin, instead of focusing on the Siamese war, now diverted a portion of the army for a Manipuri expedition.

With the Chinese keeping a heavy Chinese military lineup in the China-Burma border for about one decade to wage another war, he curbed his ambitions elsewhere even though it provided the Siamese much valuable time to consolidate their gains.

A Siamese chronicler wrote: " The king of Hanthawaddy ( Bayinnaung ) waged war like a monarch but the king of Ava ( Hsinbyushin ) like a robber.

The mission to the court of King Rama II was nearly the first official visit to one of the most powerful nations in the region since the Siam – England war of 1687 with the previous Siamese Ayutthaya kingdom.