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king, the Portuguese was the real rulers in the kingdom of Kotte. As king Dharamapala assigned his kingship to the Portuguese fr ...

fights to be unsuccessful was that Seethawaka kingdom did not have adequate naval strength. King Rajasinghe, who was on a consta ...

dethroned king Sankili and captured the power. Hereafter, a struggle started among the heirs for the throne of Jaffna. In this e ...

dynasty started in Kandy. The attempts, which the Portuguese made to establish a ruling which was loyal to them, were unsuccessf ...

Map 10.1 The distribution of the Dutch Fortresses in Sri Lanka. ...

suffered a debacle in this battle too due the usual attacks of the Kandyans. Even Diago De Melo, who led the battle, was killed. ...

Fig: 10.2 The meeting between the Kandyan leaders and the Dutch. It took 20 more years to expel the Portuguese from the country ...

of attacks launched by king Rajasinghe II during the period between 1670 and 1675, the Dutch lost a number of areas that they ha ...

though the Kandyans held some discussions to make the pact lenient, the Dutch did not agree with it. Finally, the Kandyans tende ...

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