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While Louis XIV was engaged in forming an anti-Dutch alliance, the fleet was set out in May 1670. [14] On March 22, 1672, as Admiral De La Haye led a French fleet to the vicinity of Ceylon, anchoring in the bay of Trincomalee. [15] Upon reaching Trincomalee, the Dutch, who held sway over segments of the Maritime Provinces, maintained a modest ...
Dutch Ceylon existed from 1640 until 1796. In the early 17th century, Sri Lanka was partly ruled by the Portuguese and partly by Sri Lankan (primarily of Sinhalese origin) kingdoms, who were constantly battling the Portuguese. Although the Portuguese were not winning the war, their rule was oppressive to the people of those areas controlled by ...
The Dutch agree to support the king of Kandy to drive the Portuguese from the country. The Kandyan king would settle Dutch military debt incurred through battle against the Portuguese with commodities such as cinnamon, pepper and beeswax. Grant the Dutch the monopoly of collecting commodities from the Kandyan areas except for elephants.
The Dutch imposed their imperial authority on the coastlines of Sri Lanka whereby their influence would be recognized by the king four miles from the coast into the countryside. The Kingdom of Kandy was forbidden to engage in relations with foreign traders, as well as establish agreements with foreign nations against the Dutch Empire. The Dutch ...
He was the last Dutch governor of the colony as the British retained it for 152 years. He was married to Jacomina Lever and had two children, both his son Christian and his son-in-law Willem Jacob van de Graaf, husband of his daughter Christina Elisabeth van Angelbeek, [4] were prominent in the administration of the Dutch Indian Ocean colonies. [3]
Julius Valentijn Stein van Gollenesse (17 February 1691, Groel, Sweden - 14 January 1755, Batavia, Dutch East Indies) was the 27th Dutch Governor of Ceylon during the Dutch period in Ceylon. He was appointed on 11 May 1743 and was Governor until 6 May 1751. He was succeeded by Gerard Joan Vreeland. [1]
In early April 1942, in a sortie now called the Indian Ocean raid, a strong Japanese carrier fleet under Admiral Chūichi Nagumo sortied into British-controlled waters around Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) to attack ports and shipping in an attempt to lure Admiral James Somerville's numerically inferior British Eastern Fleet into combat.
The following is a list of governors of Dutch Ceylon. The Dutch arrived on the island of Ceylon on 2 May 1639. Parts of the island were incorporated as a colony administered by the Dutch East India Company on 12 May 1656. The first governor, Willem Jacobszoon Coster, was appointed on 13 March 1640.