Kingdom of Kandy
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The Kingdom of Kandy was a Sinhalese monarchy on the island of Sri Lanka, located in the central and eastern portion of the island. It was founded in the late 15th century and endured until the early
The Ella Gap – typical of the mountainous and densely forested terrain of the Kingdom of Kandy
Portuguese governor Pedro Lopes de Sousa welcomes Kusumasana Devi a.k.a. Dona Catharina during the campaign of Danture, 1594
King Wimaladharmasuriya I receiving Joris van Spilbergen, 1603
Dutch Colombo, based on an engraving of c. 1690
British Ceylon
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British Ceylon refers to the imperial possessions of the United Kingdom in the island of Ceylon, present-day Sri Lanka, between 1796 and 4 February 1948. Initially, the area it covered did not include
Kingdom of Kandy
…through a combination of hit-and-run tactics and diplomacy kept European colonial forces at bay in the central highlands, before finally falling under British colonial rule in 1818. The kingdom was absorbed into the British Empire as a protectorate following the Kandyan Convention of 1815, and definitively lost its autonomy…
A group of British appointed Kandyan chiefs, with John Penry Lewis, Government Agent, Central Province in 1905
Admiral Sir James Somerville inspecting a detachment of Wrens serving with the East Indies Fleet in Colombo, July 1944
RAF crew and local Sinhalese in August 1945
Sir Edward Barnes was Governor of Ceylon from 1824 to 1831