Cession of Negapatnam to Britain

Among the territorial terms of the Treaty of Paris (1783–1784) that ended the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, Negapatnam in India was made a British colony. The cession is dated to the treaty itself rather than to an independently recorded day; the treaty was signed at Paris on 20 May 1784. This followed British gains in the war's Indian theatre, where Admiral Sir Edward Hughes had captured Trincomalee on the coast of Dutch Ceylon in early 1782, though hostilities in India ended with news of preliminary peace between France and Britain in 1783.