Anglo-Siamese War

Anglo-Siamese War
Date	1687–1688
Location	Mergui and Coromandel coast
Result	Siam closed to Company traders ; No peace treaty signed
Belligerents
Ayutthaya Kingdom (Siam) Governorship of Tenasserim and Siamese garrison of Mergui English defectors	East India Company
Commanders and leaders
King Narai ; Constantine Phaulkon Governor of Tenasserim ; Balat of ; Tenasserim Samuel White (defected) ; Richard Burnaby (defected) †	Elihu Yale ; Anthony Weltden
Strength
Shore batteries and Siamese troops from Tenasserim and Mergui	2 warships (Curtana and James), East India Company troops
Casualties and losses
Light	James sunk ; 60 traders killed Many English civilians killed.

The Anglo-Siamese War (or Anglo-Thai War) was a brief state of war that existed between the English East India Company and Kingdom of Siam in 1687–88. Siam officially declared war against the Company in August 1687. No peace treaty was ever signed to end the war, but the Siamese revolution of 1688 rendered the issue moot.

The war resulted in part from the jostling of the great powers—England, the United Provinces and France—for trading influence in Siam. The immediate casus belli was the dispute between Siam and the Company over the actions of the Siamese officials at Mergui (Myeik), which the English considered piracy, and the English response, which included a naval blockade of Mergui. With the exception of the fighting at Mergui on 14 June 1687—which amounted to a massacre of English sailors on shore by the Siamese—the actual war was confined to commerce raiding.

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