<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_First_Coalition" id="mwSA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="War of the First Coalition">War of the First Coalition</a>: The British <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Trincomalee_(1795)" id="mwSQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Capture of Trincomalee (1795)">capture Trincomalee</a> (present-day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka" id="mwSg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a>) from the Dutch in order to keep it out of French hands.