Regional1639

Battle of Trincomalee

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Sri Lanka

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Trincomalee (1639), part of the Later Portuguese Colonial Wars in Asia. Netherlands, Kingdom of Kandy defeated Portugal.

Belligerents3

Netherlands
Kingdom of Kandy
Portugal

ON THE MAPDutch Republic

Conflict graph

PART OFPortuguese colonial wars in Asia

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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