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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 ...
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 British had rapidly gained control over most French and Dutch outposts in India when news of these events reached India, spawning the Second Anglo-Mysore War in the process. The French admiral Bailli de Suffren was dispatched for military assistance to French colonies in India, leading a fleet of five ships of the line, seven transports ...
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 ...
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
French East India Company Kingdom of Great Britain: 1747 1750 Choctaw Civil War: Choctaw Eastern Division Choctaw Western Division 1747 1796 Civil War between Afsharid and Qajar: Afsharid dynasty: Qajar dynasty: 1749 1754 Second Carnatic War Great Britain. British East India Company Sepoys Maratha allies France. French East India Company Nawab ...
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 siege of Pondicherry was the first military action on the Indian subcontinent following the declaration of war between Great Britain and France in the American Revolutionary War. A British force besieged the French-controlled port of Pondicherry (now Puducherry) in August 1778, which capitulated after ten weeks of siege.