LankaWeb – The Last Stand of Jaffna against the Portuguese, comprised Mudaliar Attapattu’s Sinhala Army, Tamil Hindus and even Muslims who fought to preserve their motherland from foreign conquests

Senaka Weeraratna The final military campaigns for the defense of Jaffna against Portuguese colonization represent a notable chapter of joint resistance in Sri Lankan history. Historical accounts, including the comprehensive records by Portuguese chronicler Father Fernão de Queyroz, show that the struggle to expel the Portuguese from the north brought together different communities under a […]