Despite their named Phya Taksin and the Burmese did not retain control of siam for long. A
young general named Phya Taksin and his followers broke through the Burmese lines and
ascaped to chantaburi. Seven months after the fall of Ayutthaya, he and his forces sailed
back up the chao phraya river to Ayutthaya and expelled the Burmese occupatipn garrison,
though tragically the capital had been looted and nearly razed.