Ban Pho Sao Han

What happened here

Sunday 4 January 1767Stop 5 of 15

At dawn the force marched on to Ban Pho Sao Han, where the Burmese caught up with it a second time.

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What each chronicle says

The Phan Chanthanumat (Choem) version gives the date as the next morning, Sunday, the 5th day of the waxing moon of the 2nd lunar month. When the Burmese came up, Phraya Tak led his men out and fought until the Burmese broke and scattered, and a great many weapons were collected. Prince Damrong Rajanubhab, however, writes that the Burmese caught up the evening before at Ban Pho Sanghan and that the fighting took place at dawn.

So the village's name appears in several forms in the documents: Pho Sam Hao, Pho Sanghan, and Pho Sanghan written with the word for the bodhi tree. Today the form used is Pho Sao Han, the name of a subdistrict in Uthai district. The village itself is Village 3, about 5 kilometres from Ban Sam Bandit.

The place today

It is Village 3 of Pho Sao Han subdistrict, about 5 kilometres from Ban Sam Bandit. Local legend explains the village's name by saying that a woman named Pho led the villagers out to help Phraya Tak's force and died in the fighting. This is the community's own tradition and is not in the royal chronicles. Today it is a farming community; you can stop at Wat Pho Sao Han before going on to Ban Phran Nok.

Position on the map: Coordinates of the centre of today's Ban Pho Sao Han, Uthai district