Ang Chan II ( km, ព្រះបាទអង្គចន្ទទី២; 1791 – 7 January 1835) was
King of Cambodia from 1806 to his death in 1835. He reigned under the name of Outey Reachea III ( km, ឧទ័យរាជាទី៣).
Ang Chan II was the eldest son of
Ang Eng. Ang Eng died in 1796 when Ang Chan II was only five years old. Prince
Talaha Pok ( km, ចៅហ្វ៊ាប៉ុក, th, เจ้าฟ้าทะละหะ (ปก)) was appointed the regent of Cambodia. Ang Chan II was not allowed to go to Cambodia until Pok died in 1806.
In 1806, Ang Chan II was crowned king by the
Siam
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ese. His two brothers,
Ang Em and Ang Snguon, were pro-Siamese. In order to gain power from the two brothers, Ang Chan got closer to the
Vietnam
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ese. In the next year, he started to pay tribute to Vietnam. Two Vietnamese officials,
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and
Trần Công Đàn, came to
Longvek and granted him the title ''Cao Miên quốc vương'' ("king of Cambodia").
The Siamese demanded Ang Chan appoint
Ang Snguon and
Ang Em as the ''
uprayorach'' and ''
ouparach'', respectively, but Ang Chan refused. In 1811, with the help of the Siamese, Ang Snguon overthrew him. Ang Chan fled to
Saigon. His two brothers were appointed regents by the Siamese. In 1813, a Vietnamese army under
Lê Văn Duyệt
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invaded Cambodia and captured Oudong. Ang Chan returned with the Vietnamese army. Ang Em and Ang Snguon fled to
Bangkok
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. After
a rebellion, Cambodia was put under the protection of Vietnam. The Vietnamese built two castles, Nam Vang (
Phnom Penh) and La Yêm (
Lvea Aem), to station their forces. One thousand men under
Nguyễn Văn Thoại were sent to Phnom Penh to "protect" him.
He was ordered to collect ''
Cambodian Royal Chronicles'' in 1818.
In 1819, Ang Chan sent 5,000 Khmer labourers to reconstruct the Vietnamese
Vĩnh Tế Canal. An
anti-Vietnamese rebellion broke out the next year, but was put down by the Vietnamese army.
Ang Chan died in 1834, and his second daughter,
Ang Mey, was installed as queen.
Sources
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Achille Dauphin-Meunier
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He was a member of the Club de l'horloge
The Carrefour de l'Horloge (literally ''The Clock Crossroad''), formerly Club de l'Horloge (1974–2015), ...
''Histoire du Cambodge''
Que sais-je ?
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N° 916 P.U.F Paris 1968.
* Khin Sok « Quelques documents khmers relatifs aux relations entre le Cambodge et l'Annam en 1843 ». Dans :
Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient. Tome 74, 1985. P. 403-421.
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19th-century Cambodian monarchs
Cambodian Buddhist monarchs
1835 deaths
1791 births