Cambodia thread ideas

So I am drafting a Cambodian independence TL in the mid 19th century.

At the moment I am thinking of using a former Union artillery officer (originally from the South) to act as a military advisor to King Norodom. Another character would be an officer from the corps of engineers... at this stage I would think of no more than 5 advisors.

Thoughts / comments on what else I should include?

How did the US dispose of the all of the armaments at the end of the Civil War?
 
I'm know nothing about Cambodian history, but I'll be happy to read any tl about Cambodia, it does deserve better luck than it had OTL.
The idea seems okay to me.
 
So what I am drafting now would under Option A (Asian Belgium): Have an independent Cambodia wedged between Siam and French Indochina; or

Option B (German): Have Cambodia as part of a larger Siamese empire, similar to how Bavaria was absorbed into Germany.

thoughts?
 
Maybe something uniting say Laos and Cambodians against an imperialist agressive Thailand AND Vietnam in later days... weird idea...
 
Option B (German): Have Cambodia as part of a larger Siamese empire, similar to how Bavaria was absorbed into Germany.

thoughts?

By the time you're talking Cambodia already was part of Siam and Vietnam, so I suppose in that case maybe have British backed Siam fight Vietnam for the rest of Cambodia to slightly weaken the French by proxy.
 
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Yeah... I'm thinking earlier POD whereby we have an independent rump Cambodian state.

Possibly using a war against the Vietnamese (prior to the french) to form a commonwealth. Will be some significant butterflies, but I am thinking of a comparable German Empire told from the perspective of Bavaria.
 

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Yeah... I'm thinking earlier POD whereby we have an independent rump Cambodian state.

Possibly using a war against the Vietnamese (prior to the french) to form a commonwealth. Will be some significant butterflies, but I am thinking of a comparable German Empire told from the perspective of Bavaria.

Yeah, what you really need to and do is figure out how to dislodge the Thai's.
 
Yup... and that requires an earlier POD to achieve. So I will look at that and what other butterflies that I can introduce in order to achieve an independent Cambodia at the start of the 19th century.
 
So now I am thinking of allowing Longvek to survive. Possibly with some Spanish assistance, who were present in OTL. The concept of an Asian terisco versus a Siamese army is pretty cool and bull fighting seems intriguing. Ideas.. there was a TL where the Spanish intervened in the Imjin war, can't remember the name. Might read that to get more ideas.
 
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