Point Pedro was known for its huge cotton harvest. Around 1665, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the Company built a fort here to enable it to counter a possible British attack from the Bay of Bengal.
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Map of Ceylon
Bellin, Jacques Nicolas / Schley, Jacobus van der / ...
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Map of the island of Ceylon
Waasbergen, Johannes Janssonius / Anoniem / Anonymous
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Four maps showing all the churches of Wadomorachie, Walligamo, Patchelepalle and Temmorachie
Anoniem / Anonymous
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Map of Ceylon and the coast of Madure
Anoniem / Anonymous