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- 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 essentially annihilated, when they were on the verge of the total conquest of the island. A 20,000-strong Portuguese army, led by Governor Pedro Lopes de Sousa, invaded Kandy on 5 July 1594. After three months, severely depleted by guerilla warfare and mass desertions, what remained of the Portuguese army was annihilated at Danture by the Kandyans under King Vimaladharmasuriya. With this victory, the Kingdom of Kandy emerged as a major military power; it was to retain its independence, against Portuguese, Dutch, and British armies, until 1815. Victory at Danture notwithstanding, only the mobile section of the Portuguese army in Ceylon was annihilated, while their strongholds remained intact, and so Kandy was unable to follow up with an advance into the lowlands. The Portuguese would in the future renew their offensive against Kandy under the reorganized forces of captain-general Dom Jerónimo de Azevedo, devastating Kandy in the process. (en)
- La campagne de Danture est une série d'affrontements entre les Portugais et le royaume de Kandy en 1594, lors de la (en). Elle est considérée comme un tournant de la résistance indigène à l'expansion portugaise. Pour la première fois au Sri Lanka, une armée portugaise a été complètement anéantie, alors qu'elle était sur le point de conquérir la totalité de l'île. Forte de 20 000 hommes commandés par le gouverneur Pedro Lopes de Sousa, elle a envahi Kandy le 5 juillet 1594. Après trois mois, sévèrement diminuée par la guérilla et des désertions massives, ce qui restait de l'armée portugaise a été écrasé à Danture par les Kandyens du roi Vimaladharmasuriya Ier. Cette victoire a fait du royaume de Kandy une puissance militaire majeure : il a réussi à rester indépendant jusqu'en 1815, malgré les attaques successives des colonisateurs portugais, néerlandais et britanniques. (fr)
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- 93 Portuguese were captured;
- the majority of the Lascarins deserted;
- the rest of the army was killed
- A handful of Portuguese and Lascarins escaped back to Colombo;
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- *Lascarins(local soldiers on the Portuguese side)
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- 10,000 men
- * ~1,000 Portuguese (estimates range from 800 to 1,474)
- * 15,400Lascarins
- * 368 Portuguese
- * 47 elephants
- * a few Lascarins
- * an unknown number ofBadagamercenaries andcoolies
- 10,000–20,000 men (estimates range up to 40,000)
- By 8 October 1594
- On 5 July 1594
- Total 20,000
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- 93 (xsd:integer)
- Exact figures not known (en)
- the majority of the Lascarins deserted; (en)
- the rest of the army was killed (en)
- A handful of Portuguese and Lascarins escaped back to Colombo; (en)
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- D. Gastão Coutinho (en)
- Ekanayaka Mudali (en)
- Francisco da Silva (en)
- Francisco de Brito (en)
- Jayavira Bandara Mudali (en)
- Pedro Lopes de Sousa (en)
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- 0001-07-05 (xsd:gMonthDay)
- (en)
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- the Sinhalese–Portuguese War (en)
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- Danture, Kingdom of Kandy, present-day Sri Lanka (en)
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- Decisive Kandyan victory (en)
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- 10000 (xsd:integer)
- 0001-07-05 (xsd:gMonthDay)
- 0001-10-08 (xsd:gMonthDay)
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- 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 essentially annihilated, when they were on the verge of the total conquest of the island. A 20,000-strong Portuguese army, led by Governor Pedro Lopes de Sousa, invaded Kandy on 5 July 1594. After three months, severely depleted by guerilla warfare and mass desertions, what remained of the Portuguese army was annihilated at Danture by the Kandyans under King Vimaladharmasuriya. With this victory, the Kingdom of Kandy emerged as a major military power; it was to retain its independence, against Portuguese, (en)
- La campagne de Danture est une série d'affrontements entre les Portugais et le royaume de Kandy en 1594, lors de la (en). Elle est considérée comme un tournant de la résistance indigène à l'expansion portugaise. Pour la première fois au Sri Lanka, une armée portugaise a été complètement anéantie, alors qu'elle était sur le point de conquérir la totalité de l'île. Forte de 20 000 hommes commandés par le gouverneur Pedro Lopes de Sousa, elle a envahi Kandy le 5 juillet 1594. Après trois mois, sévèrement diminuée par la guérilla et des désertions massives, ce qui restait de l'armée portugaise a été écrasé à Danture par les Kandyens du roi Vimaladharmasuriya Ier. Cette victoire a fait du royaume de Kandy une puissance militaire majeure : il a réussi à rester indépendant jusqu'en 1815, malgré (fr)
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- Campaign of Danture (en)
- Campagne de Danture (fr)
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