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    The siege of Negapatam was the first major offensive military action on the Indian subcontinent following the arrival of news that war had been declared...
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    captain in Negapatam assumed virtually full authority. Between 1543 and 1642 the status of Negapatam was ambiguous, with the Portuguese de facto controlling...
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    handy to bring news of the outcome of the battle to Isle de France. The Battle of Negapatam ensued. The two fleets exchanged fire to over 4 hours, until...
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  • American Revolutionary War Siege of Yorktown (1781) – American Revolutionary War Siege of Negapatam (1781) – Fourth Anglo-Dutch War Siege of Brimstone Hill (1782)...
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    Bourdonnais and British Admiral Edward Peyton fought an indecisive action off Negapatam, after which the British fleet withdrew to Bengal. On 21 September 1746...
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    forced away from Negapatam by Braithwaite. The British took Negapatam after a three-week siege in October and November 1781. This setback forced Hyder to...
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    Peter Rainier (Royal Navy officer, born 1741) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Tiger he fought at the Battle of Cuddalore on 29 April, the Battle of Negapatam on 3 August, and in another engagement off the Coromandel Coast on 10...
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    Anglo-Mysore War in the process. Negapatam was besieged and taken by Sir Hector Munro in November 1781. The French admiral the Bailli de Suffren was dispatched...
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    governor of Negapatam, the principal outpost of the Dutch East India Company in India. He directed the unsuccessful defense of Negapatam against a British-led...
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    conflicts Portuguese Negapatam R.S. Whiteway, (1899) Rise of Portuguese Power in India, p.224 Archived 14 July 2023 at the Wayback Machine De Souza, Teotonio...
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    1760) Siege of Quebec (April 29, 1760) Defence of Montreal (September 1760) Defense of Martinique (1761) Third Intercolonial War Battle of Negapatam (6 July...
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    1781 Siege of Negapatam, in which the British took the fort. In the Treaty of Paris of 1784 which ended the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War of which this siege was...
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    Battle of Cartagena de Indias Seven Years' War Action of 29 April 1758 Battle of Negapatam Siege of Madras Battle of Pondicherry Siege of Pondicherry Battle...
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    day of the siege, wound captain Dom Vasco with an arrow and force the Portuguese to seek refuge in to the citadel. The first of Dom João de Meneses' ships...
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  • Americans begin siege of British commander Cornwallis. Battle of Fort Slongo 3 October - The USA defeats Great Britain Siege of Negapatam 21 October – First...
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    India, and the British captured the main Dutch outpost at Negapatam after three weeks of siege in November 1781 against defenses that included 2,000 of...
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  • part in the Battle of Cuddalore on 29 April 1758 and in the Battle of Negapatam on 3 August. Monteil was given command of the frigate Sylphide, and took...
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    Bourdonnais and British Admiral Edward Peyton fought an indecisive action off Negapatam, after which La Bourdonnais put in at Pondicherry for repairs and strategising...
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  • Jacques Boudin de Tromelin, Tromelin started his career in the army as a lieutenant in the régiment du Limousin, and taking part in the Siege of Maastricht...
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    city that Varthema calls "Cioromandel", which seems to correspond to Negapatam, a vassal city of Vijayanagara on the Coromandel Coast of India. Varthema...
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    The Siege of the Portuguese fort Santa Cruz de Gale at Galle in 1640, took place during the Dutch–Portuguese and Sinhalese–Portuguese Wars. The Galle fort...
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    Pedro Miguel de Almeida waged war against the Raja of Sawantwadi, as a retaliation to constant border raids. On 16 November 1746, de Almeida brought...
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    the Battle of Providien on April 12 near Trincomalee, the Battle of Negapatam on July 6 off Cuddalore, after which Suffren seized upon the anchorage...
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  • Anglo-Mysore War Battle of Sholinghur – 1781 – Second Anglo-Mysore War Siege of Negapatam – 1781 – Second Anglo-Mysore War and Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (American...
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    the Battle of Providien on April 12 near Trincomalee, the Battle of Negapatam (1782) on July 6 off Cuddalore, after which Suffren seized upon the anchorage...
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    d'Ache 3 August Negapatam – British under Pocock defeat French under d'Ache 1759 August 19 Lagos – British under Boscawen defeat French under de la Clue 10...
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    English fleet had captured a large Portuguese galleon off the Azores, the Madre de Deus, loaded with 900 tons of merchandise from India and China, worth an estimated...
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    Galle Fort (redirect from Point-de-Galle)
    This is the harbour where the Portuguese, under the leadership of Lourenço de Almeida, made their first landing in 1505 on the island and caused a notable...
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  • Revolution' of the Eighteenth Century", International History Review (1990) 12#2 pp. 301–323 Siege began on 7 December 1757 and ended on 19 December 1757....
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    Coelho de Barbuda: Empresas militares de Lusitanos, 1624, p.170. Pedro de Mariz: Diálogos de Vária história. Coimbra, Officina de António de Mariz, 1598...
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