<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombo" id="mwPQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Colombo">Colombo</a> in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) falls to the British, completing their <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Ceylon_(1795)" id="mwPg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Invasion of Ceylon (1795)">invasion of Ceylon</a>.<sup about="#mwt20" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"}}' id="cite_ref-2" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_16#cite_note-2" id="mwPw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwQA">[2]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"><cite about="#mwt17" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFJames2002"><a href="./William_James_(naval_historian)" id="mwBgs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="William James (naval historian)">James, William</a> (2002) [1827]. <i id="mwBgw">The Naval History of Great Britain, Volume 1, 1793–1796</i>. London: Conway Maritime Press. p.<span id="mwBg0" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>371. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBg4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBg8" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/0-85177-905-0" id="mwBhA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/0-85177-905-0"><bdi id="mwBhE">0-85177-905-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt17" class="Z3988" id="mwBhI" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Naval+History+of+Great+Britain%2C+Volume+1%2C+1793%E2%80%931796&amp;rft.place=London&amp;rft.pages=371&amp;rft.pub=Conway+Maritime+Press&amp;rft.date=2002&amp;rft.isbn=0-85177-905-0&amp;rft.aulast=James&amp;rft.aufirst=William&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFebruary+16"></span></span>