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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 Wandiwash in
The battle was part of the Third Carnatic War fought between the French and British colonial empires, which itself was a part of the global Seven Years' War. It took place at Vandavasi (Wandiwash being the Anglicised pronunciation [1]) in Tamil Nadu. Having made substantial gains in Bengal and Hyderabad, the British, after collecting a large ...
The siege of Pondicherry (1760–1761) was a conflict in the Third Carnatic War, as part of the global Seven Years' War.Lasting from 4 September 1760 to 15 January 1761, British land and naval forces besieged and eventually compelled the French garrison defending the French colonial outpost of Pondicherry to surrender.
From 1760 onwards, Britain would begin to reconquer territories that had been lost in the Carnatic earlier in the war, and laid siege to Pondicherry by March. Despite a lengthy and brave defence, the city fell on 15 January 1761 and remained under British control until the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1763, when the city was returned to France.
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 Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle prevented direct hostilities between the two powers but soon they were involved in indirect hostilities as the auxiliaries of the local princes in their feuds. The feud Dupleix chose was for the succession to the positions of the Nizam of the Deccan and the Nawab of the dependent Carnatic province. The British and ...
Pages in category "Third Carnatic War" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Battle of Chandannagar; N.
Treaties concluded or ratified by the Nawab of the Carnatic (1690–1801). Pages in category "Treaties of the Nawab of the Carnatic" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.