The Capture of Trincomalee on 11 January 1782 was the second major engagement between Great Britain and the Dutch East India Company in the East Indies...

the trading port at Trincomalee. To achieve the seizure of the colony, the British government instructed Lord Hobart, Governor of Madras to use the forces...

Trincomalee, the Trincomalee Hindu Cultural Hall and, opened in 1897, the Trincomalee Hindu College. Trincomalee is also the site of the Trincomalee railway...

The Battle of Trincomalee was fought between a British fleet under Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes and a French fleet under the Bailli de Suffren off the...

Royalists and Great Britain Capture of Trincomalee 21 July – The taking by force of the port of Trincomalee in the island of Ceylon. Great Britain defeats...

captured off Trincomalee on the night of 11 April 1783. Naïade was armed with eighteen to twenty 8-pounder guns and ten swivel guns and had a crew of...

oilfields of the Persian Gulf. Ceylon held most of the British Empire's resources of rubber. An important harbour and naval base, Trincomalee, was located...

The Trincomalee Garrison is a common name used for collection of military bases of the Sri Lanka Army located in and around the Fort Fredrick and the town...

under the command of John MacBride during the Siege of Dunkirk. In 1795 he was wounded while participating in the capture of Trincomalee. In 1800 he was...

The Capture of Sint Eustatius took place in February 1781 during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War when British army and naval forces under Lieutenant-General...