Jacob Burnand

Events

1

Episodes

2

Years

1795–1815

Every event in Historedia whose sources name Jacob Burnand, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

1. Capture of Trincomalee

   1795–1815

   Role: Dutch Governor of Batticaloa, contemporary observer

   1. 11795 · Fortified port city on Ceylon's east coastBritish Recapture of Trincomalee

      With the French occupying the Dutch Republic, Britain seized Trincomalee in 1795, renaming it Fort Frederick and claiming to prevent a Napoleonic invasion.

   2. 21815–1948 · Port city in British CeylonTrincomalee under British Rule

      After the 1795 capture, Trincomalee was absorbed into British Ceylon in 1815 and remained British until Sri Lanka's independence in 1948.

Sources

1. Trincomalee Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-27