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How D’Oyly used espionage to conquer Kandy?
With the fall of the Kandyan Kingdom, the Kandyan Convention, ceremonially signed on March 10, 1815, completed the annexation ...
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Prince Don Phillip – the new King of Kandy
The ancestors of Prince Yamasinghe were heirs to the throne of Kandy. Due to the troubles created by King Rajasinghe, the prince’s last surviving relation Karaliyadde had to leave the kingdom and seek ...
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The King of Kandy
King Rajasinghe was planning to capture the Kandyan Kingdom.Karaliyadde, then King of Kandy had kept a small platoon of Portuguese soldiers, for his safety. Veera Surendra of Peradeniya, who was one ...
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How D’Oyly used espionage to conquer Kandy?
along with the financial costs of the British expedition to Kandy, had convinced D’Oyly that there were alternative ways of subjugating the Kandyan Kingdom. Having arrived in Ceylon in 1801 at ...