The Invasion of Ceylon was a military campaign fought as a series of amphibious operations between the summer of 1795 and spring of 1796 between the garrison of the Batavian colonies on the Indian Ocean island of Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ) and a British invasion Attack force sent Sending from British India .

Among the first territories to be attacked Attack were those on the coast of the island of Ceylon , with operations initially focused Aiming on the trading Commerce_sell port at Trincomalee .

To achieve Achieve the seizure of the colony , the British government instructed Causation Lord Hobart , Governor of Madras to use Using the forces at his disposal to invade Attack and capture Conquering the Batavian held Defending parts of the island .

Then , in May 1975 , the newly formed Coming_to_be Democratic Kampuchea , dominated Control by the Khmer Rouge , began Process_start attacking Attack Vietnam , beginning Process_start with an attack Attack on the Vietnamese island of Phú Quốc .

Flooding Catastrophe and landslides in Jamaica took Bringing their toll on property , agricultural interests , and infrastructure ; fruit growers on the island sustained about $ 2.5 million ( 1935 USD ) in losses Earnings_and_losses .

It was initially forecast to continue Process_start north and strike Attack Cuba , prompting Causation evacuations Removing on the island .

The storm Catastrophe executed another loop to the southwest of Réunion , passing Motion_directional near the island for a second and later third time .

For twelve days , Hyacinthe dropped Motion torrential rainfall on Réunion ; nearly all of the island received Receiving more than 1 m ( 3.3 ft ) of precipitation .

In an effort to simultaneously obtain Getting help Assistance from France and reduce Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the number of personnel maintained Preserving in the city , the naval commander on the island , Contre-amiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve , ordered Request his subordinate Contre-amiral Denis Decrès to put Placing to sea with the large ship of the line `` Guillaume Tell '' , which had arrived in Arriving the port shortly before the siege began Process_start in September 1798 .

although part of the eye passed Motion_directional over hatteras island in the outer banks , its absolute center remained Presence 23 mi ( 37 km/h ) offshore .

The engagement Hostile_encounter was fought Hostile_encounter off the Norwegian coastal island of Eigerøya , then in Danish Norway , the opposing forces engaged Hostile_encounter in protecting Defending their respective countries ' trade routes to the Baltic Sea .

On 25 September , Allemand achieved Achieve a major success when his squadron , while waiting Motion for a convoy from the Leeward Islands , encountered Hostile_encounter a seven-ship convoy Patrolling from the island of Saint Helena .

Only two of the captured Conquering Indiamen were successfully brought Causation to Ile de France : the same storm Catastrophe that nearly destroyed Destroying `` Vénus '' scattered Dispersal the squadron and its prizes , allowing Preventing_or_letting a patrolling Patrolling British frigate to recapture Conquering `` Windham '' just a few miles from the French island .

A British invasion Attack of Martinique took place Process_start in January 1759 when a large amphibious force under Peregrine Hopson landed Arriving on the French-held island of Martinique and unsuccessfully tried to capture Conquering it during the Seven Years ' War .

the east cape war , sometimes also called Request the `` east coast war '' , was a series of conflicts Hostile_encounter fought Hostile_encounter in the north island of new zealand from april 1865 to october 1866 between colonial and UNK military forces .

Hurricane Catastrophe Igor was the most destructive Destroying tropical cyclone Catastrophe on record Recording to strike Attack the Canadian island of Newfoundland , and the strongest hurricane Catastrophe of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane Catastrophe season .

The Solomon Island of Tikopia was the worst affected island , after more than 1,000 people were left Causation homeless on the island and 90 % of all dwellings were destroyed Destroying .

The Solomon Island of Tikopia was the worst affected island , after more than 1,000 people were left Causation homeless on the island and 90 % of all dwellings were destroyed Destroying .

Firinga passed Motion_directional 50 km ( 31 mi ) west of the island , producing Creating wind gusts that destroyed Destroying 844 homes .

Heavy crop damage Damaging occurred Coming_to_be on the island , and damage Damaging nationwide was estimated Statement at $ 60 million ( 1989 USD ) .

The storm Catastrophe dropped Motion torrential rainfall in the southern portion of the island , including 24‑hour totals of at Pas de Bellecombe and at Casabois , both of which set Placing records Recording for the locations .

Damage Damaging was estimated Statement at around ₣1 billion ( 1989 francs , $ 157 million 1989 USD ) , and there were 10 deaths Death on the island .

After crossing Motion_directional the island , Gafilo emerged Coming_to_be into the Mozambique Channel and made Arriving landfall Arriving over Madagascar again on 9 March .

Throughout the island , Sarah was responsible for 19 fatalities and at least $ 171 million USD ( 4.38 billion New Taiwan dollars ) in damage .

The Turkish invasion of Cyprus ( and ) , code-named by Turkey as Operation Atilla , ( ) was a Turkish military invasion Attack of the island country of Cyprus .

In July 1974 , Turkish forces invaded Attack and captured Conquering 3 % of the island before a ceasefire was declared Expressing_publicly .

In August 1974 another Turkish invasion resulted in Causation the capture Conquering of approximately 40 % of the island .

Around 150,000 people ( amounting to more than one-quarter of the total population of Cyprus , and to one-third of its Greek Cypriot population ) were expelled Removing from the occupied northern part of the island , where Greek Cypriots constituted 80 % of the population .

The earthquake Catastrophe moved Motion Honshu ( the main island of Japan ) east , shifted Motion the Earth on its axis by estimates Scrutiny of between and , increased Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale earth 's rotational speed by 1.8 µs per day , and generated Creating infrasound waves detected Know in perturbations of the low-orbiting GOCE satellite .

While near peak intensity , Mitch struck Attack the offshore Guanaja island , where it nearly destroyed Destroying the mangrove forest .

It moved Motion erratically westward toward the Philippines , eventually striking Attack the island of Luzon on July 4 .

Linfa weakened Cause_change_of_strength across the island , but reorganized Arranging over the South China Sea .

initial fighting Hostile_encounter on new britain took place Process_start around the western end of the island in december 1943 and january 1944 , with us forces Hostile_encounter landing Self_motion and securing bases around arawe and cape gloucester .

This was followed by a further landing Self_motion in March 1944 around Talasea , after which little fighting Hostile_encounter took place Process_start between the ground forces on the island .

In October 1944 , the Australian 5th Division took over Military_operation from the US troops and undertook Action a Landing Self_motion at Jacquinot Bay the following month , before beginning Process_start a limited Limiting offensive to secure a defensive line across the island between Wide Bay and Open Bay behind which they contained Containing the numerically superior Japanese forces for the remainder of the war .

In addition , Australian historians have been critical of the limited air and naval support Supporting allocated Dispersal to support Supporting operations on the island between October 1944 and the end of the war .

The third named Name_conferral storm of the 2009–10 Australian region cyclone season , Magda originated Coming_to_be from a tropical low near the Indonesian island of Roti on 18 January .

On April 21 , 1898 , after the sinking of in Havana Harbor and prior to its declaration of war on April 25 , the United States launched Process_start a naval blockade of the Spanish colony island of Cuba , off its southern coast of the peninsula of Florida .

The Siege of Porto Ferrajo was a French attempt to force Control the surrender of the Tuscan fortress town of Porto Ferrajo ( now Portoferraio ) on the island of Elba following the French occupation of mainland Tuscany in 1801 during the French Revolutionary Wars .

despite a number of naval actions and one significant land engagement , the siege dragged on Change_event_time inconclusively for the summer and early autumn of 1801 , and when the first articles of the treaty of amiens were signed Sign_agreement in october , the town was still under tuscan control Control , although the provisions of the final agreement , signed Writing in march 1802 , granted Preventing_or_letting the island to france .

Operation Archery , also known as the Måløy Raid , was a British Combined Operations raid Attack during World War II against German positions on the island of Vågsøy , Norway , on 27 December 1941 .

After passing Motion_directional the island , the hurricane turned Becoming to the northeast , and became Becoming extratropical on September 8 , before dissipating Dispersal two days later .

It was both the most damaging Damaging and the first hurricane Catastrophe to cause Causation a death Death on the island since 1926 .

The hurricane Catastrophe 's powerful winds resulted in Causation moderate damage Damaging and destroyed Destroying roofs throughout the island .

During the first months of the occupation , the Indonesian military faced Confronting_problem heavy insurgency resistance in the mountainous interior of the island , but from 1977–1978 , the military procured Getting new advanced Cause_to_make_progress weaponry Bearing_arms from the United States , Israel , and other countries , to destroy Destroying Fretilin 's framework .

The United States gained Getting several island possessions spanning Self_motion the globe and a rancorous new debate Quarreling over the wisdom of expansionism .

The Corsican people had risen Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale up against the French garrison of the island in 1793 , and sought Getting support Supporting from the British Royal Navy 's Mediterranean Fleet under Lord Hood .

With the conclusion of the siege Besieging the island of Corsica now became Becoming a British colony , and remained Presence a British base of operations for two years .

the battle Hostile_encounter of mackinac island ( pronounced `` mackinaw '' ) was a british victory Earnings_and_losses in the war Military_operation of 1812 .

A scratch British , Canadian and Native American force had captured Conquering the island in the early days of the war Military_operation .