The War of the Austrian Succession was a European conflict fought between 1740 and 1748,primarily in Central Europe,the Austrian Netherlands,Italy,the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Related conflicts include King George's War in North America,the War of Jenkins' Ear,the First Carnatic War,and the First and Second Silesian Wars.
Robert Clive,1st Baron Clive,,also known as Clive of India,was the first British Governor of the Bengal Presidency. Clive has been widely credited for laying the foundation of the British East India Company (EIC) rule in Bengal. He began as a writer for the EIC in 1744 and established Company rule in Bengal by winning the Battle of Plassey in 1757. In return for supporting the Nawab Mir Jafar as ruler of Bengal,Clive was guaranteed a jagir of £30,000 per year which was the rent the EIC would otherwise pay to the Nawab for their tax-farming concession. When Clive left India in January 1767 he had a fortune of £180,000 which he remitted through the Dutch East India Company.
Bertrand-François Mahé,comte de La Bourdonnais was a French naval officer and colonial administrator,in the service of the French East India Company.
Joseph Marquis Dupleix was Governor-General of French India and rival of Robert Clive.
The Battle of Plassey was a decisive victory of the British East India Company,under the leadership of Robert Clive,over the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies on 23 June 1757. The victory was made possible by the defection of Mir Jafar,Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah's commander in chief. The battle helped the British East India Company take control of Bengal in 1772. Over the next hundred years,they continued to expand their control over vast territories in the rest of the Indian subcontinent,including Burma.
Fort St. George is a fortress at the coastal city of Chennai,India. Founded in 1639,it was the first English fortress in India. The construction of the fort provided the impetus for further settlements and trading activity,in what was originally an uninhabited land. Thus,it is a feasible contention to say that the city evolved around the fortress. The fort currently houses the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly and other official buildings.
Fort St David,now in ruins,was a British fort in the town of Cuddalore,a hundred miles south of Chennai on the Coromandel Coast of India. It is located near silver beach without any maintenance. It was named for the patron saint of Wales because the governor of Madras at the time,Elihu Yale,was Welsh.
The Carnatic wars were a series of military conflicts in the middle of the 18th century in India's coastal Carnatic region,a dependency of Hyderabad State,India. The first Carnatic wars were fought between 1740 and 1748
Events from the year 1746 in Great Britain.
Sir William Langhorne,1st Baronet was the Agent of Madras from January 1670 to 27 January 1678.
The history of Seychelles dates back to the fourth of the Portuguese India Armadas led by Vasco da Gama,though Seychelles was likely already known to Arab navigators and other sailors for many centuries. On 15 March 1503,the scrivener ThoméLopes noted the sighting of an elevated island,doubtless one of the granitic islands and almost certainly Silhouette Island. The first recorded landing was by the men of the English East India Company ship Ascension,which arrived in Seychelles in January 1609.The islands were claimed by France in 1756. Seychelles remained uninhabited until the first settlers arrived on board the ship Thélemaque,which arrived on 27 August 1770. Captain Leblanc Lecore landed the first colonists,comprising 15 white men,eight Africans and five Indians. The Seychellois Creole language developed as a means of communication between the different races. The British frigate Orpheus commanded by Captain Henry Newcome arrived at Mahéon 16 May 1794. Terms of capitulation were drawn up and the next day Seychelles was surrendered to Britain. Following the fall of Mauritius to British forces,Captain Phillip Beaver of the Nisus arrived at Mahéon 23 April 1811 and took possession of Seychelles as a permanent colony of Britain. The Seychelles became an independent republic in 1976. Following a coup d'état,a socialist one-party state ruled the country from 1977 to 1993. The subsequent democratic Presidential elections were won by candidates of the same party.
The Battle of Madras or Fall of Madras took place in September 1746 during the War of the Austrian Succession when a French force attacked and captured the city of Madras from its British garrison.
Madras Presidency was an administrative subdivision (presidency) of British India. At its greatest extent,Madras Presidency included much of southern India,including the present-day Indian State of Tamil Nadu,the Malabar region of North Kerala,Lakshadweep Islands,the Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions of Andhra Pradesh,Brahmapur and Ganjam districts of Orissa and the Bellary,Dakshina Kannada,and Udupi districts of Karnataka. The presidency had its capital at Madras.
The First Carnatic War (1740–1748) 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. In this conflict the British and French East India Companies vied with each other on land for control of their respective trading posts at Madras,Pondicherry,and Cuddalore,while naval forces of France and Britain engaged each other off the coast. The war set the stage for the rapid growth of French hegemony in southern India under the command of French Governor-General Joseph François Dupleix in the Second Carnatic War.
The siege of Trichinopoly (1751–1752) was conducted by Chanda Sahib,who had been recognized as the Nawab of the Carnatic by representatives of the French East India Company,against the fortress town of Trichinopoly,held by Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah.
The action of 6 July 1746 was an inconclusive naval engagement between the British and French fleets during the War of the Austrian Succession.
British Bencoolen was a possession of the British East India Company (EIC) extending nearly 500 miles along the southwestern coast of Sumatra and centered on the area of what is now Bengkulu City. The EIC established a presence there in 1685,and in 1714 the EIC built Fort Marlborough there.
Lapwing was one of four fast-sailing packet ships that Thomas Bronsdon of Deptford built for the British East India Company (EIC). She was launched in 1743 and made five trips for the company before the EIC sold her in 1751.
The siege of Cuddalore was a battle during the War of the Austrian Succession on 17 June 1748.
