KING NARESUAN,SYMBOL OF STRENGTH.

Part 1

A military genius and brave fighter,King Naresuan liberated Siam from the Burmese.
A monument is built to this man who continues to be one of Thailand's national heroes.
For Thais, King Naresuan the Great is a symbol of bravery and heroism. He is considered a splendid commander, a man who ushered the country from defeat to resounding victory. And yet although this is the image, many people are quite lost when it comes to actual historical details of what happened. In 1571, when King Naresuan the Great was eight years old ,he was taken hostage by Burmese invaders. It was the custom of the time for the victorious nation in a battle to take a royal child of the defeated monarch home as insurance against further aggression..

Imagine the pressure the boy felt as a prisoner of war, far from home and separated from his family, many of whom were killed by the Burmese. He must have realized the only way to win his freedom was in battle and that perhaps was the motivation for his amassing extensive knowledge of the strategies of war and perfecting the use of weapons.

Later as a young man, the Burmese allowed him to go to Siam to visit his father, but the young prince never returned to Burma. Instead he announced Thailand would be free and no longer a colony of Burma.

Thus he waged a constant war and one using "new" methods. He waged guerrilla warfare, using small forces to weaken the enemy through persistent, unexpected attacks, Throughout his life, he never knew the luxury of resting comfortably on a throne. He was constantly at risk of dying from disease under the harsh circumstances he lived in while preparing attack after attack against the enemy.

King Naresuan the Great is celebrated in many works of literature like "Lilit taleang phai" by His Holiness Krom Phra Paramanuchitchinoros and Prince Damrongrachanupphap's History of Thailand's Wars with Burma. Even today a military camp in Phitsanulok and a police camp at Hua Hin are named after King Naresuan and the are many monuments to him around the country;The largest one of all is currently under construction at Lumphlee in Ayutthaya.

The monument at Thung Lumphlee is a project conceived by Her Majesty the Queen,with the Ministry of the Interior taking responsibility for realising it and the Supreme Command Headquarters of the Ministry of Defense overseeing devlopment and construction. Work on the structure began in 1995 and the work was completed in the same year.

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King Naresuan Part 1

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