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Battle of Trincomalee

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Sri Lanka

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Trincomalee (1795), part of the French Revolutionary War (1st Coalition). United Kingdom defeated Netherlands.

Belligerents2

United Kingdom
Netherlands

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1783)Dutch Republic

Conflict graph

PART OFWar of the First Coalition

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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