After probing Phú Quốc, Siamese and Khmer troops built 18 camps from Lộc Giác hill to Chu Nham and besieged Hà Tiên. Đoàn Văn Sách held the Kim Dữ sea forts and Lương Văn Liễu the town; the attackers broke and fled by sea toward Kampot.
Siege
Siamese siege of Hà Tiên
- 1842
- Southeast Asia
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