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The Chevalier de Beauregard (c.1665–c.1692) was a 17th-century French officer who was active in Siam (modern Thailand). He became Governor of Bangkok and Mergui, but was eventually captured by the Siamese during the 1688 Siamese revolution. De Beauregard went to Siam in 1685, with the embassy of Chevalier de Chaumont. He was transferred to the garrison of Bangkok, under the command of Chevalier Claude de Forbin. In July 1686, when the fort was attacked by a band of pirates from Makassar, de Beauregard's belly was slit open with a dagger, but his commander de Forbin managed to replace the viscera and sew him up, making him the first recorded case of a Western-style surgical intervention in Thailand.
In 1687 de Beauregard briefly replaced Forbin as governor of Bangkok. De Beauregard was then made governor of the city of Mergui after the revolt against the English there in July 1687.〔 De Beauregard was named governor by King Narai of Siam in the place of the Englishman, Samuel White.〔 De Beauregard was part of the retreat of the French troops of De Bruant there, following the 1688 Siamese revolution.〔 Large-scale attacks were launched on the two French fortresses in Siam, Bangkok and Mergui, and on 24 June, the French had to abandon their garrison at Mergui.〔 Du Bruant and de Beauregard managed to escape under fire and with many casualties by seizing a Siamese warship, the ''Mergui''.〔 De Beauregard was eventually captured by the Siamese in Tavoy when the French ships from Mergui tried to obtain some victuals there, together with four soldiers and the Jesuit Pierre d'Espagnac.〔 The captives seem to have been enslaved.〔 ==See also== *France-Thailand relations 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chevalier de Beauregard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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