CONTENTS. PAGE.

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

HISTORY OF SIAM.

CHAPTER I. THE FIRST KINGS OF SIAM.

CHAPTER II. THE REIGN OF CHAO NARAI.

CHAPTER III. THE REVOLT OF THE MACASSARS.

CHAPTER IV. THE REVOLUTION THAT BROUGHT ABOUT THE DOWNFALL OF FAULCON AND THE FRENCH.

CHAPTER V. THE BREACH BETWEEN THE FRENCH AND THE USURPER.

CHAPTER VI. THE PERSECUTION OF THE CHRISTIANS AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF DES FARGES.

CHAPTER VII. EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE REVOLUTION OF 1760.

CHAPTER VIII. THE REVOLUTION OF 1760.

CHAPTER IX. THE REVOLUTION OF 1767.

CHAPTER X. THE MISFORTUNES OF THE EUROPEANS AFTER THE REVOLUTION.

CHAPTER XI. AFTER THE REVOLUTION OF 1767.

CHAPTER XII. ADVANTAGES THAT MIGHT ACCRUE FROM COMMERCIAL

CHAPTER XIII. TONKIN.

Title: History of the Kingdom of Siam and of the revolutions that have caused the overthrow of the empire, up to A. D. 1770

Author: Francois Henri Turpin

Translator: Basil Osborne Cartwright

Language: English

                Compiled by M. TURPIN from manuscripts
                received from M. the Bishop of TABRACA
                Vicar Apostolic of Siam and from other
                     Missionaries in the Kingdom.

PUBLISHED ORIGINALLY AT PARIS A. D. 1771.

               Translated from the original French by
                        B. O. CARTWRIGHT, B.A.
                  EXHIBITIONER KING'S COLLEGE (CAMB).

                            BANGKOK 1908.
                  Printed under the auspices of the
                     Committee of the VajiraÑÀna
                          National Library.

                              BANGKOK:
           Printed at the "American Presby. Mission Press."
                                1908.