Siege of Galle (1640)
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Siege of Galle (1640)
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The Siege of the Portuguese fort Santa Cruz de Gale at Galle in 1640, took place during the Dutch–Portuguese and Sinhalese–Portuguese Wars. The Galle fort commanded 282 villages, which contained most fertile cinnamon lands in southern Sri Lanka It was also an important strategic coastal defense of Portuguese Ceylon. The Dutch, who were in an alliance with the Kingdom of Kandy, landed an expeditionary force under Commodore Willem Jacobszoon Coster of Akersloot, at the Bay of Galle, on 8 March 164
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1640 siege
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Galle_(1640)
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2013-08-27T13:57:07Z
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2024-09-04T20:38:49Z
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