Editing Green Howards (section)

===Kandyan Wars===
In April 1801 the regiment was deployed to [[Sri Lanka|Ceylon]] for service in the [[Kandyan Wars]].<ref name="Cannon, p. 19"/> The regiment lost six officers and 172 other ranks in a massacre there in June 1803 and then remained on the island to enforce British rule.<ref>Cannon, p. 21</ref> The regiment did not return to England until May 1820.<ref>Cannon, p. 26</ref>