The Battle of Trincomalee was fought between a British fleet under Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes and a French fleet under the Bailli de Suffren off the...
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Trincomalee, the Trincomalee Hindu Cultural Hall and, opened in 1897, the Trincomalee Hindu College. Trincomalee is also the site of the Trincomalee railway...
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Pierre André de Suffren (redirect from Bailli of Suffren)
a battle line, soon arriving in view of the forts of Trincomalee. 2,000 men quickly landed, with siege artillery, ammunition and three days worth of rations...
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ship was named Trincomalee after the 1782 Battle of Trincomalee off the Ceylon (Sri Lanka) port of that name. Work on the Trincomalee began in May 1816...
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Trincomalee Harbour is a seaport in Trincomalee Bay or Koddiyar Bay, fourth largest natural harbour in the world and situated on the northeastern coast...
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Sir Thomas Troubridge, 1st Baronet (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies)
officer he saw action at the Battle of Sadras in February 1782 during the American Revolutionary War and the Battle of Trincomalee in September 1782 during...
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rulers of Mysore. Suffren fought in the Battle of Sadras on 17 February 1782, the Battle of Providien on 12 April near Trincomalee and the Battle of Negapatam...
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is a town in the Trincomalee District of Sri Lanka about 30 km south-east of Trincomalee on the south-eastern side of the Trincomalee Harbour. The town...
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Indian Ocean raid (redirect from Raid on Trincomalee (1942))
oilfields of the Persian Gulf. Ceylon held most of the British Empire's resources of rubber. An important harbour and naval base, Trincomalee, was located...
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Bellone to the British 28-gun HMS Coventry in the run-up to the Battle of Trincomalee. Although both ships were frigates, Bellone belonged to the Iphigénie...
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Franco-American alliance (section Treaty of Alliance)
rulers of Mysore. Suffren fought in the Battle of Sadras on February 17, 1782, the Battle of Providien on April 12 near Trincomalee, the Battle of Negapatam...
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Justin Bonaventure Morard de Galles (category Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour)
February 1782, the Battle of Providien on 12 April 1782, and in the Battle of Trincomalee from 25 August to 3 September 1782, sustaining three new wounds...
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HMS Sceptre (1781) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
Hughes's squadron. She arrived in time for the Battle of Trincomalee in 1782. This was the fourth battle of a bloody campaign between Vice-Admiral Hughes...
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the command of the third-rate HMS Exeter in May 1782 in which he saw action at the Battle of Negapatam in July 1782, the Battle of Trincomalee in September...
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February 1782, at the Battle of Providien on 12 April 1782, at the Battle of Negapatam on 6 July 1782, and at the Battle of Trincomalee on 3 September 1782...
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HMS Sultan (1775) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
arriving from England on 30 March in time to fight in the battles of Providien, Negapatam and Trincomalee. Her last action was at Cuddalore in 1783 and she returned...
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Charles Gaspard Hyacinthe de Forbin La Barben (category Year of death missing)
17 February 1782, the Battle of Providien on 12 April 1782, the Battle of Negapatam on 6 July 1782, and the Battle of Trincomalee from 25 August to 3 September...
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Franco-Indian Alliances (category History of the foreign relations of India)
rulers of Mysore. Suffren fought in the Battle of Sadras on February 17, 1782, the Battle of Providien on April 12 near Trincomalee, the Battle of Negapatam...
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Villehunault ( — Consolante, Battle of Trincomalee, 3 September 1782) was a French Navy officer. He fought in the War of American Independence, and taking...
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of Trincomalee 21 July – The taking by force of the port of Trincomalee in the island of Ceylon. Great Britain defeats the Batavian Republic. Battle of...
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of Providien on 12 April 1782, and at the Battle of Negapatam on 6 July 1782, and at the Battle of Trincomalee from 25 August to 3 September 1782. On 8...
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Anne René Augustin de Roscanvec de La Landelle (category Year of death unknown)
Trincomalee from 25 August to 3 September 1782. La Landelle-Roscanvec requested to be relieved and left the squadron after the Battle of Trincomalee,...
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Edward Hughes (Royal Navy officer) (category British military personnel of the Second Anglo-Mysore War)
happened. In 1782, at the reopening of hostilities in the East Indies, he stormed Trincomalee a few days before the squadron of Suffren arrived in the neighbourhood...
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French ship Orient (1756) (redirect from French ship of the line Orient (1756))
25 August and 3 September 1782. In the wake of the Battle of Trincomalee, she was wrecked near Trincomalee in Sri Lanka on 8 September 1782, around 0400...
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Louis-Esprit d'Aymar (category Year of birth missing)
under Suffren during the War of American Independence, captaining the 64-gun Saint Michel at the Battle of Trincomalee from 25 August to 3 September...
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East Indies Fleet (category Fleets of the Royal Navy)
Fleet was re-designated East Indies fleet and continued to be based in Trincomalee. Following its re-designation its remaining ships formed the British...
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HMS Sceptre (section Battle honours)
submarine. Ships named Sceptre have earned the following battle honours: Trincomalee, 1782 Cape of Good Hope, 1795 Guadeloupe, 1810 Norway, 1944 Atlantic...
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Beaumont le Maître (category Year of death missing)
under Suffren during the War of American Independence, notably captaining the 64-gun Ajax at the Battle of Trincomalee from 25 August to 3 September...
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his fleet at Pondicherry after that battle; on 23 February, he sailed out to find Hughes, who had gone to Trincomalee for repairs. On 8 April, Hughes's...
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HMS Eagle (1774) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
to take part in the Battle of Cuddalore in 1783. Eagle was on harbour service from 1790, and was broken up in 1812. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol. 1, p...
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