Editing Elihu Yale (section)

===Anglo-Siamese War===
{{see also |Anglo-Siamese War}}
[[File:Fort St. George, Madras.jpg|thumb|225px|[[Warship]]s attacking [[Fort St. George, Madras]], along the [[Coromandel Coast]]. c. 1731 by Beorbe Lambert and [[Samuel Scott (painter)|Samuel Scott]]]]

For many years, merchants of Madras and [[Thailand|Siam]] were trading partners in the [[Andaman Sea]], trading in [[Rhinoceros#Horn use|rhinoceros horns]], [[Tusk|elephant tusks]], [[copper]] and other commodities.<ref name="relations siam1"/> Yale's brother, Thomas Yale, became ambassador to King [[Narai the Great|Narai of Siam]], and during this time, Elihu would entertain at his house the French ambassador and [[musketeer]], Count [[Claude de Forbin]], drinking to the health of the royal families of England and France.<ref>{{cite book |last=Anderson |first=John |year=1890 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2F4oAAAAYAAJ&q=yale+ambassador+siam&pg=PA489 |title=English Intercourse with Siam in the Seventeenth Century |publisher=Kegan Paul, Trench, Turbner & Co. |location=London |pages=367–368}}</ref><ref name="Yale brother1"/><ref name="Siam11"/> But around August 1687, disputes regarding Siam's strategic importance emerged among [[European powers]], and Gov. Yale was charged by King [[Narai the Great|Narai]]'s agents regarding the sale of jewels, which they estimated having overpaid by 25%.{{sfn|Bingham|1939|pp=131-132}} The man behind the charges was a Greek named [[Constantine Phaulkon]], who wanted to lower English's influence over King Narai, and get him closer to [[Louis XIV]] of France through [[Chevalier de Chaumont]].<ref name="relations siam1">{{cite book |title=Records of the Relations Between Siam and Foreign Countries in the 17th Century, Great Britain |publisher=India Office |year=1916}}{{full citation needed|date=July 2024}}</ref>{{sfn|Bingham|1939|pp=131-132}}

This trading dispute started the [[Anglo-Siamese War]], with Yale acting on behalf of King [[James II of England]], which resulted in number of casualties for the company, as cities were now being robbed by Siameses.{{sfn|Bingham|1939|pp=131-132}} Some English merchants at Siam sided with the enemy, and became involved in acts of [[piracy]], which had Yale send [[warship]]s in retaliation against Englishmen who changed sides.<ref name="relations siam1"/> No peace treaty was ever signed, but the war against the [[East India Company|Company]] will eventually stop around 1688.<ref>{{cite book |first=D. G. E. |last=Hall |title=A History of South-East Asia |edition=4th |publisher=Macmillan |year=1981 |pages=392–397}}</ref> In London, the directors investigated the accusations of the Siameses on Yale and cleared his name, declaring that "you can not be ignorant that Phaulkon himself in the King of Siam's name, began the war... upon a pretense that Mr. Yale injured the King of Siam in a bargain".{{sfn|Bingham|1939|pp=131-132}} [[Constantine Phaulkon|Phaulkon]]'s alliance with France would later cost him his life, being assassinated by the Siameses nobles during the [[Siamese revolution of 1688]].{{sfn|Bingham|1939|pp=131-132}} On 11 August 1687, Yale approved the recall of several Englishmen to Madras detained by Prussian [[Wolf Henrik von Kalnein]], governor of [[List of governors of Tranquebar|Tranquebar]] under the [[Danish East India Company|Danish East India Co.]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Records of Fort St. George. Diary and consultation book 1686–1689 |pages=123–127}}{{full citation needed|date=July 2024}}</ref>