storyThai troops in France, 1914–18
ทหารไทยในฝรั่งเศส · thahan thai nai farangset
A German magazine reviewed it in 1918 and called Siam remarkable.
What it is
Thailand sent troops to France with the allies, and they taught what they knew. The English article records this as the route by which the word reached Europe.
The long version
Le Sport Orient, published in Mainz, is quoted: the boxers are agile, strong and tough; the sport is hard to get to see; and "once again, it makes the French feel that Siam is one of the truly remarkable nations of Asia."
Inference — so the first foreign audience for muay thai was a European one, in a war, twenty years before the two Bangkok stadiums existed. The export is older than the domestic institution.
Connected to
- The ring arrives, 1921 What was happening at home.
- Every gym on the map Where it ended up.
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)
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