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When Portuguese were routed in Gannoruwa-by L.B Senaratne Unsung and unnoticed the last Battle of Gannoruwa, was fought to  regain the Kandyan Kingdom from the Portuguese. If the islanders had lost this battle that would have made Ceylon a Portuguese State.  The battle was fought on March 28, 1638 (‘Palm Sunday ‘) which by a coincidence fell on the same day in 2021.  The 28-year-old Rajasinghe II maneuvered to retain the Kandyan Kingdom for its people. Emerson Tennant in his book on Ceylon describes the Portuguese as “There is no page in European Colonialism more gloomy and repulsive than the period of the Portuguese in Ceylon “ ...