Point Pedro fort ( ta, பருத்தித்துறைக் கோட்டை, translit=Paruttittuṟaik Kōṭṭai; si, පේදුරුතුඩුව බලකොටුව ''Peduruthuduwa Balakotuwa'') is a fort built in 1665 by the Dutch in

Point Pedro Point Pedro ( ta, பருத்தித்துறை, translit=Paruttittuṟai; si, පේදුරු තුඩුව, translit=Pēduru Tuḍuva) is a town, located in Jaffna District, Sri Lanka, at the northernmost point of the island. ...

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

. It was constructed during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, by the

Dutch East India Company The United East India Company ( nl, Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the VOC) was a chartered company established on the 20th March 1602 by the States General of the Netherlands amalgamating existing companies into the first joint-stock ...

to counter a possible British attack from the

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. On the 27 August 1795, the fort was captured by British forces, the

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(also known as 1st Battalion Sepoys). It is reported that the basement was triangular in shape, which led to it being built as a nearly triangle-shaped fort. It had only one

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towards the landward side and it was lacking space inside the fort due to its structure. The seaside structure of the fort was just a wall with no bastions or cannons. Further details of the fort have been identified from Dutch era maps. According to the maps, one side wall was long and the other two walls were in length.

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