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The Carnatic wars were a series of military conflicts in the middle of the 18th century in India's coastal Carnatic region, ... First Carnatic War (1746–1748)
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 Adyar (also the Battle of Adyar River) took place on 24 October 1746. [1] The battle was between the French East India Company men and forces of Nawab of Arcot, Anwaruddin Khan over the St. George Fort, which was held by the French. It was part of the First Carnatic War between the English and the French. [2] [3]
The English fleet, first under the command of Commodore Curtis Barnett and then Edward Peyton, and a French fleet under Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, engaged each other early in the First Carnatic War. Both fleets were damaged, with La Bourdonnais putting in at Pondicherry for repairs, and Peyton at Trincomalee.
On 7 September 1746 the inhabitants of Madras woke to find a French fleet sitting offshore – and an expedition of soldiers being landed on the shore. The French ships opened fire on the town – but with little effect, struggling to find the correct range and by nightfall a large portion of the garrison had been lulled into a false sense of security.
However, as the war continued, Britain's strength on the subcontinent grew thanks to the arrival of significant numbers of reinforcements coupled with the recruitment of local sepoys. 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.
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
Siege of Cuddalore (1746), an action during the First Carnatic War (part of the War of the Austrian Succession) Battle of Cuddalore (1758), an indecisive naval battle during the Third Carnatic War (part of the Seven Years' War) Siege of Cuddalore, a 1783 siege during the Second Anglo-Mysore War (part of the Anglo-French War of 1778–1783)