Invasi Ceylon (1795)
Invasi Ceylon adalah sebuah kampanye militer sebagai serangkaian operasi amfibi antara musim panas tahun 1795 dan musim semi tahun 1796 antara garnisun koloni-koloni Batavia di Samudra Hindia Pulau Ceylon (kini Sri Lanka) dan sebuah pasukan invasi Britania yang dikirim dari India Britania. Republik Belanda had been a British ally during the French Revolutionary Wars, but was overrun by the French Republic in the winter of 1794 and reformed into the client state of the Batavian Republic. The British government, working with the exiled Stadtholder William of Orange, ordered the seizure of Batavian assets including colonies of the former Dutch Empire. Among the first territories to be attacked were those on the coast of the island of Ceylon, with operations initially focused on the trading port at Trincomalee.
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