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-Daulah, 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 history of the military transactions of the British nation in Indostan from the year 1745, Volume 2 [1756 to 1761] by Robert Orme. Index to 1st Section, Index to 2nd Section. An 1861 reprint of the 4th edition 1803. Volume 2 was first published 1778. archive.org

Volume 3 A collection of maps and plans to accompany the History ... is available at the British Library. (The Google Books edition is not usable).

• A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc. by Edward Ives, formerly Surgeon of Admiral Watson’s Ship, and of His Majesty’s Hospital in the East Indies 1773 Google Books. Pdf download, Digital Library of India, possibly a reprint edition.
• 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. Archive.org version may have extra illustrations Volume II(Volume I)
• Memoirs of the revolution in Bengal, Anno. Dom. 1757 by William Watts 1760 Google Books
• Original papers relative to the disturbances in Bengal: containing every material transaction from 1759 to 1764, Volume 1 by Henry Vansittart 1765 Google Books
• A narrative of the transactions in Bengal, from the year 1760, to the year 1764: during the government of Mr. Henry Vansittart by Henry Vansittart 1766 Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3 Google Books
• A short history of English transactions in the East-Indies 1776 Google Books(This book appears to relate mainly to the period 1764-1766)
• Transactions in India, from the commencement of the French War in seventeen hundred and fifty-six, to the conclusion of the late peace, in seventeen hundred and eighty-three: Containing a history of the British interests in Indostan, during a period of near thirty years; distinguished by two wars with France, several revolutions and treaties of alliance, the acquisition of an extensive territory, and the administration of Governor Hastings by John Moir 1786 Google Books
• The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan by H. G. Keene. A New Edition, with Corrections and Additions.1887. Gutenberg.org. Covers the period 1759-1803. The same file is also available on Archive.org