After the fall of Ayutthaya, one of the five communities in teh Kingom, the Cha Trak community in Chantaburi, volunteered to recapture the city. Leading a force of 500 men, Taksin moved from Chantabuti to Thonburi. From thee he made war against the burmese and drove them out of Siam. During this period he became King but the strain of a lifetime of war meant that he did not reign for long.