3rd Carnatic War

3rd Carnatic War
1756-63
Chronological list of Wars and Campaigns
Location: Carnatic Region South India
Combatants:
East India Company	French
Result: British victory
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Summary

Suraj ud Dowlah, Nawab of Bengal sought to drive the British out by capturing Calcutta. Robert Clive won a series of victories ending in the defeat of the Nawab at Plassey. Meanwhile the Seven Years War had broken out which caused renewed hostilities between the French and British in the Carnatic. The British under Eyre Coote finally defeated the French. War broke out again in Bengal after a conspiracy by the Dutch but the British eventually prevailed with a final victory at Buxar. The Treaty of Paris effectively ended French ambitions in India.

Related articles

For further details of events during this period see the following articles

Surrender of Kossimbazar	4 June 1756
Loss of Calcutta	20 June 1756
Recapture of Calcutta	2 January 1757
Battle of Hughli	11 January 1757
Battle of Chitpur	5 February 1757
Siege of Chandernagore	23 March 1757
Action at Trichinopoly	12-25 May 1757
Battle of Plassey	23 June 1757
Action off Cuddalore	29 April 1758
Loss of Cuddalore	4 May 1758
Loss of Fort St David	2 June 1758
Action off Negapatam	3 August 1758
Battle of Condore	9 December 1758
Siege of Madras	14 Dec 1758 - 17 Feb 1759
Battle of Masulipatnam	6 March - 7 April 1759
Action off Pondicherry	10 September 1759
Action off Melancholy Point	24 November 1759
Action at Chandernagore	24 November 1759
Battle of Biddera	25 November 1759
Capture of Wandiwash	29 November 1759
Capture of Carangoly	10 December 1759
Battle of Wandiwash	2-22 January 1760
Capture of Villenore	21 July 1760
Siege of Pondicherry	4 Sep 1760-16 Jan 1761
Capture of Vellore	26 December 1761
Patna Crisis	1762-63
Attack on Patna	24 June 1763
Battle of Manjee	1 July 1763
Battle of Cutwa	19 July 1763
Battle of Gheria	2 August 1763
Battle of Undwah Nala	5 September 1763
Battle of Buxar	23 October 1764

Biographies

Entries in the Dictionary of Indian Biography 1906

Comte d'Aché (1716-75)
Thomas Adams (?-1764)
Marquis de Bussy (1718-1785)
John Caillaud (1724-1812)
Robert Clive (1725-74)
Eyre Coote (1726-83)
Roger Drake
William Draper (1721-87)
Francis Forde (?-1770)
John Holwell (1711-98)
John Kilpatrick (?-1787)
Comte de Lally (1700-66)
Mir Jafar (1691-1765)
Mir Kasim (?-1777)
Hector Munro (1726-1805)
George Pocock (1706-1792)
Shuja-ud-Daulah (1731-75)
Joseph Smith (1733?-1790)
Charles Steevens (1705-61)
Suraj-ud Daulah (1731-57)
Charles Watson (1714-57)

External Links

Carnatic Wars Heritage History
1758-61 War in the Carnatic Google Books
3rd Carnatic War 1756-63 Wikipedia
British campaign in Bengal 1757 www.kronoskaf.com
Operations in the Carnatic 1757 www.kronoskaf.com
French operations Coromandel Coast 1758 www.kronoskaf.com
British operations in the Deccan 1758 www.kronoskaf.com
British operations on the Malabar Coast 1759 www.kronoskaf.com
British operations on the Coromandel Coast 1759 www.kronoskaf.com
British operations in Bengal 1760 www.kronoskaf.com
British operations on the Coromandel Coast 1760 www.kronoskaf.com
British operations in Bengal 1761 www.kronoskaf.com
Anglo-India after Clive's departure Maps FCIT

Historical books online

• A Voyage to the East Indies Volume 2: The History of the War with the French from 1754 to the Conclusion of the General Peace in 1763 by John Henry Grose 1772 Google Books