My pleasure, just what I had dredged from my 1st year SE Asian History notes. Glad it helped.
james wallis <
kentguy212002@...> wrote:
thank you for your excellent reply. many thanks
Michael Lorimer <
mijalo_jp@...> wrote:A small corps of samurai (perhaps 800-strong) were maintained by King of Ayutthaya. In 1628 they put down the opposition movement against the successor to King Thom. They were maintained by King Ekathotsarot of Ayutthaya (the kingdom in place prior to present-day Thailand), when Ayutthaya attracted a number of foreign merchants from ming China and the Netherlands, but in 1620 they were forced into flight after Ekathotsarot was defeated during a palace coup led by Songdhamrna.
The leader of this group of Yamada Nagamasa (1590-1630), who became lord of Nakhon Si Thammarat (in present-day southern Thailand), but he died after being wounded fighting supporters of King Songtham.
james wallis <
kentguy212002@...> wrote:
Hi all, hope your christmas was fun and fullfilling, and that you all got the lego sets you wanted. Anyway i have just been reading into some accounts of samurai being hired aboad dutch ships to help 'remove'english traders from the indies, althought there are a few accounts of japanese wako being hired by various nations to man ships , i was wondering ,(before i hit the british library) does anyone know of any other accounts of samurai ( prob wako with swords lol) being hired by a foriegn nation and used abroad. many thanks , hope you all have a good new year, and carry on with this excellent forum.
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