18 Facts About Hsinbyushin

The warlord behavior by local governors and army commanders only increased in 1774 when Hsinbyushin suffered from what turned out to be a long illness that would ultimately claim his life.

Hsinbyushin's father came from a large family, and was related by blood and by marriage to many other gentry families throughout the valley.

Hsinbyushin fell back to Ava, and had to defend the city against a siege by the invaders.

Hsinbyushin would be known as the Prince of Myedu from then on.

Hsinbyushin retreated back alongside his father's litter, and was by his father's bedside when the king died near a small village in Martaban.

At Alaungpaya's deathbed, Hsinbyushin had promised his father to uphold his wish.

In 1765, Hsinbyushin commissioned the translation of the Vyakarana, the Sanskrit works on grammar, medicine, astrology, erotic lore, etc.

The Maungdaung Sayadaw translated with the help of nine Brahmin scholars Hsinbyushin had invited to his court from Varanasi, India.

Letwe Thondara, a secretary to the Hluttaw council, whom Hsinbyushin had exiled to Meza Hill, earned his recall two months later by writing the well known Meza Taung-Che poem, bewailing his grief and loneliness.

Hsinbyushin was determined to renew the war against Siam, and began making preparations as soon as he became king.

Hsinbyushin refused to recall the main Burmese armies in Siam.

Hsinbyushin was furious that his generals had acted without his knowledge, and tore up his copy of the treaty.

Hsinbyushin exiled Maha Thiha Thura and generals for a month.

Hsinbyushin did not resume the war with Siam, which had now been reinvigorated under a new leadership.

Hsinbyushin sent Ne Myo Thihapate to Chiang Mai with a sizable army, and asked the governor of Martaban to raise an army.

Hsinbyushin trusted only Pierre de Milard, the French commander in his service that he sometimes asked de Milard to sleep in the same room as him in order to protect him against possible attacks linked to a succession dispute.

Hsinbyushin still trusted the old general of the Chinese war fame because his eldest-son and heir-apparent Singu was married to the general's daughter.

Hsinbyushin is one of the most famous kings in Burmese history, known for his victories over the Chinese and the Siamese.