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Haw Wars

Years: 1865 - 1890

The Haw Wars, so called in Thai, are fought against Chinese quasi-military forces invading parts of Tonkin and Siam during the years of 1865 to 1890.

Forces invading Lao domains are particularly ill-disciplined and freely plunder Buddhist temples.

Not knowing these are remnants of the aftermath of the Taiping Rebellion led by Hong Xiuquan, a heterodox Christian convert, the invaders are confused with Chinese Muslims from Yunnan called Haw.

Forces sent by King Rama V fail to suppress the various groups, the last of which eventually disbands in 1890.

"{Readers} take infinitely more pleasure in knowing the variety of incidents that are contained in them, without ever thinking of imitating them, believing the imitation not only difficult, but impossible: as if heaven, the sun, the elements, and men should have changed the order of their motions and power, from what they were anciently"

― Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1517)