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One major instigator of the Carnatic wars was the Frenchman Joseph François Dupleix, who arrived in India in 1715, rising to become the French East India Company's governor in 1742. Dupleix sought to expand French influence in India, which was limited to a few trading outposts, the chief one being Pondicherry on the Coromandel Coast ...
Two years into the war, in 1756, Great Britain declared war on France, beginning the worldwide Seven Years' War. Many view the French and Indian War as being merely the American theater of this conflict; however, in the United States the French and Indian War is viewed as a singular conflict which was not associated with any European war. [7]
The power of a small number of heavily-trained French and French trained Indian troops over larger Indian formations using older military tactics was not lost on Joseph Dupleix, and over the next several years he capitalised on this advantage to greatly expand French influence in south India. In the Second Carnatic War (1748–1754) he took ...
The Anglo-Indian wars were the several wars fought in the Indian Subcontinent, over a period of time, between the British East India Company and different Indian states, mainly the Mughal Empire, Rohilkhand, Kingdom of Mysore, Subah of Bengal, Maratha Confederacy, Sikh Empire of Punjab, Kingdom of Sindh and others.
The French and Indian War (1754–1763), the Anglo-Spanish War (1762–1763), and the Spanish–Portuguese War (1762–1763) were all parts of the Seven Years' War. The War of the Austrian Succession ended in 1748, but failed to resolve ongoing tensions between the European powers.
The French colonies were administered through the secretary of state for the navy, and naval troops garrisoned New France. The French marines were organized into independent companies called Compagnies franches. During the French and Indian War, naval gunner-bombardier companies were also stationed in North America.
Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803–1805) Maratha Empire East India Company: British victory. Treaty of Surji-Anjangaon; Battle of Vizagapatam (1804) East India Company United Kingdom France: French victory: Anglo-Nepalese War (1814–1816) East India Company Garhwal Kingdom Patiala State Kingdom of Sikkim: Nepal: Company victory. Treaty of Sugauli
Anglo-French War (1294–1303) – known as the Gascon War in English and the Guyenne War in French; Anglo-French War (1324) – known as the War of Saint-Sardos; Anglo-French War (1337–1453) – the Hundred Years' War and its peripheral conflicts, often broken up into: Edwardian War (1337–1360) Caroline War (1369–1389) Lancastrian War ...