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{{War|name=War against Dutch in Ceylon|dates=1795-96 |image= |location=[[Ceylon]]|combatant1=British Navy and the [[East India Company]] |combatant2=Dutch |result=British took Dutch possessions|medal=[http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/coins/collection/watson/page61.html [Medals|Capture of Ceylon 1795-96]]|category=[[:Category:War against Dutch in Ceylon| War against Dutch in Ceylon]] }}{{Battlemap|war=War Against Dutch in Ceylon|link=http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Kalpitiya,+Puttalam,+North+Western+Province,+Sri+Lanka&msa=0&msid=101241150585833319689.00048704576a5e78e1c9e&ll=7.972198,80.79895&spn=4.090085,4.361572&z=8}}
== Summary ==
In the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars#1795 French Revolutionary Wars] the French overran the Netherlands and created the puppet state of the Batavian Republic. This gave Britain a pretext for attacking the Dutch settlements in Ceylon.
== British Forces ==
'''[[James Stuart (1741-1815)|Colonel James Stuart]]''' commanding<br>
*[[Royal Artillery]] (42 all ranks) under Capt-Lieut Dixon
*[[Madras Artillery]] (136 all ranks and 340 gun lascars) under Capt Carlisle
*Flank coys [[71st Regiment of Foot|HM 71st]] and [[73rd Regiment of Foot|73rd Regiments]] (351 all ranks) under Major Dalrymple
*[[72nd Regiment of Foot|HM 72nd Regiment]] (743 all ranks) under Major Fraser
* Native Brigade under Lieut-Col Bonnevaux
:*[[61st Madras Pioneers|1st Battalion]] (14 Europeans and 643 natives) under Capt Fergusson
:*[[23rd Madras Battalion|23rd Battalion]] (13 Europeans and 643 natives) under Capt Campbell
:*[[Madras Sappers and Miners|Pioneers]] (2 sergeants and 219 natives) under Lieut Dowse
*13 Staff Officers<br>
'''Total 1,314 Europeans and 1,845 natives'''
==Related articles ==
For further details of events during this period see the following articles
{|
|[[Siege of Trincomalee 1795|Siege of Trincomalee]]|3-26 August 1795
|-
|[[Occupation of Colombo]]|12 February 1796|}'''Other events'''<br>The following locations were occupied without resistance{||Fort Ostenburg|31 August 1795
|-
|Batticaloa Fort|18 September 1795|(Major Fraser)|-|Jaffnapatam|28 September 1795|(Colonel Stuart)|-|Mullaittivu|1 October 1795|(Captain Monson)|-|Island and Fort of Manar|5 October|(Captain Barbut)|-|Kalpitiya|13 October|(Captain Bowser)|-|Negombo|3 February 1796|(Captain Barbut)
|}
== External Links ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars French Revolutionary Wars] Wikipedia<br>[https://www.mq.edu.au/macquarie-archive/under/documents/1796.html 1796 documents relating to Captain Lachlan Macquarie, 77th Regiment of Foot], later Governor of N.S.W., Australia from Macquarie University’s [https://www.mq.edu.au/macquarie-archive/under/research.html Under a Tropical Sun].
==== Historical Books on-line ====
*"Ceylon, a general description of the island and its inhabitants; with an historical sketch of the conquest of the colony by the English" by Henry Marshall 1846 - [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9Pg9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA68&dq=Dutch&hl=en&ei=eIcbTdjgNYPMhAexr_W2Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false English Period 1796] Google Books<br />*''Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India Vol VI'' by Intelligence Branch Army HQ India 1911 [http://www.archive.org/stream/frontieroverseas06indi#page/280/mode/2up - Military Operations against the Dutch] archive.org *[http://books.google.com/books?id=sUjRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA26 ''Military reminiscences: extracted from a journal of nearly forty years' active service in the East Indies Volume 1''] page 24 by Colonel James Welsh of the Madras Establishment 1830, (Google Books), commences a description of the campaign in Ceylon in 1796[[Category:War against Dutch in Ceylon| War against Dutch in Ceylon]]
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[[Category:War against Dutch in Ceylon| War against Dutch in Ceylon]]
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