An unusual contemporary manuscript account, by an anonymous British officer, of the British conquest of Dutch coastal territories in Ceylon, covering the period from June 29th 1795 to February 29th 1796, and with a thirty-page description of the 1793 siege of Pondicherry by the British South India a

An unusual contemporary manuscript account, by an anonymous British officer, of the British conquest of Dutch coastal territories in Ceylon, covering the period from June 29th 1795 to February 29th 1796, and with a thirty-page description of the 1793 siege of Pondicherry by the British South India…