Siege of Pondicherry (1748) explained

Conflict:The Siege of Pondichéry
Partof:The First Carnatic War
Date:August  - 27 October 1748
Place:Pondicherry (present-day India)
Map Type:India Pondicherry#India
Map Relief:yes
Result:French victory
Combatant2:
Commander1: Edward Boscawen
Commander2: Joseph François Dupleix

The siege of Pondicherry (August  - October 1748) was conducted by British forces against a French East India Company garrison under the command of Governor-General Joseph François Dupleix at the Indian port of Pondicherry. The British siege strategy, conducted with inexperience in siege tactics by Admiral Edward Boscawen, was lifted with the arrival of monsoon rains, on 27 October 1748. The siege was the last major action of the First Carnatic War, as the Indian theatre of the War of the Austrian Succession is sometimes known.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Naravane, M.S. . Battles of the Honourable East India Company . A.P.H. Publishing Corporation . 2014 . 9788131300343 . 153–154.