Investigation Services in Phuket
In 1681 or 1682, the Siamese king Narai who was seeking to reduce Dutch and English influence, named the French medical missionary Brother Rene Charbonneau, as the Governor of Phuket, he held that position until 1685 when the new governor (another Frenchman) Sieur de Billy was installed as governor of the island. The French were expelled from Siam in 1688 however, following the 1688 Siamese revolution, and on April 10, 1689, a French general led an expedition to re-capture the island of Phuket in an attempt to restore some sort of French control in Siam. The occupation of the island failed, and the French left in January 1690.
The Burmese attacked Phuket in 1785. a British East India Company Captain Francis Light was passing by the island, and sent word to the local administration that he had observed Burmese forces preparing to attack.
Khunying Jan, the wife of the recently deceased governor, and her sister Mook then assembled what forces they could. After a month-long siege, the Burmese were forced to retreat on March 1785. The two women became local heroines, receiving the honorary titles "Thao Thep Kasatri and Thao Sri Sunthon from King Raman I.
During the reign of King Chuklalongkorn (Rama V), Phuket became the administrative center of the tin-producing southern provinces. In 1933 Phuket became a province by itself.
Phuket is the biggest island in Thailand, located in the Andaman Sea off southern Thailand. The island is mostly mountainous with a mountain range in the west of the island from the north to the south. The mountains of Phuket form the southern end of the Phuket Mountain Range, which ranges for 440 km from the Kra Isthmus.
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