The city of Vientiane is totally destroyed and its population completely relocated.

The destruction is so thorough that the first French explorers more than thirty years later will find only ruins in a jungle to show where the city had once been.

The remaining Lao kingdoms of Champassak and Luang Prabang understandably come under stricter control and arms limitations, while the Khorat Plateau is formally annexed by Siam.

Regional rivals Siam and Vietnam will come into increasing conflict over control of the inland trade and Lao territory, leading to the Siamese-Vietnamese Wars of the 1830s.

Vietnam will annex the Lao principality of Xiangkhoang, and Chinese bandits after the Taiping rebellion will be able to force their way down the Mekong River to fight what will become known as the Haw Wars of the 1860s.

The first French explorers navigating the Mekong River will use the political vacuum as a convenient excuse to create their own colony of French Indochina.