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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 ...
The First Carnatic War (1744/1746–1748) was the Indian theatre of the War of the Austrian Succession and the first of a series of Carnatic Wars that established early British dominance on the east coast of the Indian subcontinent.
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 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 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.
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)
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