Bowring Treaty
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Treaty of Friendship and Commerce between Great Britain and Siam, known colloquially as the Bowring Treaty, was the historic landmark treaty signed between the United Kingdom during the reign of Queen
The original document, with decorated cover
Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
Mongkut, the First King of Siam
Pinklao, the Second King of Siam
Burney Treaty
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The treaty between Kingdom of Siam and Great Britain commonly known as the Burney Treaty was signed at Bangkok on 20 June 1826 by Henry Burney, an agent of British East India Company, for Britain, and
Bowring Treaty
…as the model for "Bowring-type" unequal treaties that Siam was going to make with other Western nations in the nineteenth century. The Anglo–Siamese Burney Treaty of 1826, which Siam made with the British East India Company, stipulated abolition of monopoly of Phra Khlang Sinkha or Royal Warehouse, granting the…
A Thai duplicate of the Burney Treaty