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The Third Carnatic War spread beyond southern India and into Bengal where British forces captured the French settlement of Chandernagore in 1757. However, the war was decided in the south, where the British successfully defended Madras , and Sir Eyre Coote decisively defeated the French, commanded by the Comte de Lally at the Battle of ...
In the Second Carnatic War (1748–1754) he took advantage of struggles for succession to the Nizam of Hyderabad and Nawab of the Carnatic to establish strong French influence over a number of states in south India. The British East India Company, in contrast, did little to expand its own influence and only weakly attempted to oppose Dupleix's ...
The Battle of Ambur (3 August 1749) was the first major battle of the Second Carnatic War. [1]The battle was initiated by Muzaffar Jung and supported by Joseph François Dupleix and led by Chanda Sahib, who sought to overthrow Anwaruddin Muhammed Khan, the Nawab of the Carnatic, for supporting Nasir Jung's claim to be Nizam of Hyderabad.
The French occupied the town for the duration of the war. Despite Dupleix's promise earlier to hand the territory over to the Nawab of the Carnatic, Dupleix refused to do so. [8] A force of 10,000 sent by the Nawab to enforce the agreement was routed by a small French force led by Captain Louis Paradis at the battle of Adyar on 24 October 1746.
The Treaty of Pondicherry was signed in 1754 bringing an end to the Second Carnatic War.It was agreed and signed in the French settlement of Puducherry in French India.The favoured British candidate Mohamed Ali Khan Walajan was recognized as the Nawab of the Carnatic. [1]
The 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, sometimes called the Treaty of Aachen, ended the War of the Austrian Succession, following a congress assembled on 24 April 1748 at the Free Imperial City of Aachen. The two main antagonists in the war, Britain and France, opened peace talks in the Dutch city of Breda in 1746.
First Carnatic War (1746–1748) Second Carnatic War (1749–1754) Polygar Wars(1750-1805) Third Carnatic War (1756–1763) Bengal War (1756–1765) Battle of Plassey ...
Anglo-French War (1746–1763) – also known as the Carnatic Wars Anglo-French War (1756–1763) – part of the Seven Years' War and its peripheral conflicts Anglo-French War (1778–1783) – part of the American Revolutionary War and its peripheral conflicts