storyBoxers at Angkor, 1431
นักมวยที่นครธม พ.ศ. 1974 · nak muay thi nakhon thom
The first time a chronicle puts boxers in an army and names the officer.
Mr.Niwat Tantayanusorn, Ph.D. · CC BY-SA 4.0What it is
King Borommarachathirat II of Ayutthaya sent four forces against Angkor Thom, and the victory inscription lists groups of Siamese boxers among them.
The long version
The inscription of Khun Sri Chaiya Raj Mongkol Thep, N.M. 78, face 2, dated 1431, names the officer, the three targets — Angkor Thom, Phimai, Phanom Rung — and the composition of the column that came home: groups of Siamese boxers, with elephant and horse battalions.
Inference — a boxer inside an order of battle is not a sportsman and not a demonstrator. He is infantry with a specialism, which is what the sport was for about five hundred years before it was anything else.
Connected to
- The King's Guard, 1455 What it became, twenty-four years later.
Named here by
- The King's Guard, 1455 The campaign before it.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Muay Thai — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Muay Thai — Wikipedia (en)
- Ayutthaya Kingdom — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there