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The Bangkok Post
The Bangkok Post
Today, hundreds of millions of Americans around the world are celebrating the 246th anniversary of the independence of the United States of America. We at the American Embassy in Bangkok will join that celebration, but we will also mark over 200 years of friendship between the US and Thailand. In 1818, an American sea captain entered the port of Bangkok for the first time. Fifteen years later, the US and the Kingdom of Siam signed the first treaty between the young United States and an Asian nation. That treaty establishing our bilateral relationship promised “constant peace and perpetual frie…
