Danture, Battle of, Sri Lanka, 1594

found: Work cat.: 2015363085: Battle of Danture, 2015:pref. (the Battle of Danture fought between the Kandyan Army led by King Vimaladharmasuriya against the Portuguese forces led by Governor Pedro Lopes de Sousa on October 9, 1954)

found: Pieris, P. E. (Paul Edward). Ceylon, the Portuguese era, volume 2, 1992(The Sinhalese-Portuguese War was a series of conflicts waged from 1527 to 1658 between Sinhalese kingdoms and their allies against the Portuguese Empire as an indigenous resistance to the Portuguese expansion in Sri Lanka)

found: Wikipedia, viewed, July 20, 2016(the Danture campaign comprised a series of encounters between the Portuguese and the Kingdom of Kandy in 1594, part of the Sinhalese-Portuguese War. It is considered a turning point in the indigenous resistance to Portuguese expansion. For the first time in Sri Lanka a Portuguese army was completely annihilated, when they were just a fraction away from the total conquest of the island)