One recount has revealed when Ayutthaya, the former capital of Thailand was surrounded and invaded by the Burmese troops in 1976, Phraya Tak (Sin) with his 500 troops had broken out and marched to settle down and arrived at the vicinity of what is now Pattaya before keeping on his journey to Jantaburi, then came back to strike back and expelled the Burmese invaders out of Thailand in 7 months