Rajitha Weerakoon in Daily Mirror, 11 March 2025, with this title “How D’Oyly used espionage to conquer Kandy?”
With the fall of the Kandyan Kingdom, the Kandyan Convention, ceremonially signed on March 10, 1815, completed the annexation of the island to the British Empire. This brought an end to the rule of Lankan Royalty.
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Quintus Andradi as Compiler, whose preferred title is “Stories from the National Archives, UK: The Incredible True Story of Virginia Hall”.… with highlights added by The Editor, Thyppahi
Virginia Hall was born in 1906 into a well-to-do Baltimore family. Her ambition in life was to work abroad for the American diplomatic service, but this ambition was shattered when she accidentally injured herself in the foot while bird-shooting, and her leg was amputated.
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A = I knew about this history, but was aware of the curious perspective taken here with regard to a nexus between global Islam, India and the Russian revolution. Nonetheless, it is a perspective worth considering as one theory (of many) on the matter. It’s about Maulana , a founding member of the Ghadar Party. Not sure if he had much influence on world affairs but…. the tale is interesting in the light of other nationalists such as Bose and Gandhi.
Abdul Hafiz Mohamed Barakatullah … ubhas Chandra Bose
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