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3/2/1815: UK-Ceylon Convention signed to end the 2000 year-old Ceylon
monarchy and, "by popular demand of the oppressed Sinhalese" pass total
sovereignty to Britain.
"I'm happy for to see you home,
Hurroo! hurroo!
I'm happy for to see you home,
Hurroo! hurroo!
All from the island of Sulloon,
So low in flesh, so high in bone.
Och, Johnny! I hardly knew ye!
H Halliday Sparling, 1898.
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