Sinhalese–Portuguese War – Campaign of Danture

Quando

9 de out. de 1594

Tipo

Evento

Coordenadas

7.28° N, 80.54° E

Posicionado em: coordinates of the event it links, Campaign of Danture.

Sinhalese–Portuguese War – Campaign of Danture: Forces of the Kingdom of Kandy gain a decisive victory over the Portuguese Empire, reversing near-total control of Sri Lanka by Portugal. Pedro Lopes de Sousa, the Governor of Portuguese Ceylon, is killed in the battle, and replaced on December 24 by Jerónimo de Azevedo.

1594 Portuguese military campaign against the Kingdom of Kandy

The Campaign of Danture comprised a series of encounters between the Portuguese and the Kingdom of Kandy in 1594, part of the Sinhalese–Portuguese War. It is considered a turning point in the indigenous resistance to Portuguese expansion. For the first time in Sri Lanka, a Portuguese army was essentially annihilated, when they were on the verge of the total conquest of the island.

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