In the Ceylon History we studied in Kandy’s Dharmaraja ... their entourage slipped through the ‘cordon sanitaire’ that the Dutch and British cutting the Kandyan Kingdom from the coastal regions. These ...

along with the financial costs of the British expedition to Kandy, had convinced D’Oyly that there were alternative ways of subjugating the Kandyan Kingdom. Having arrived in Ceylon in 1801 at ...

Balane is the famous one as it was the main objective of European armies invading the Kandyan kingdom. The defence of this pass was entrusted by the King to the Maha Dissawa of the Great Sathara ...