Siege
1752 battle of the Second Carnatic War
The Battle of Chingleput was a short siege in early 1752, during the Second Carnatic War. About 700 East India Company recruits and sepoys under the command of Robert Clive captured the fortress of Chingleput, near Madras, defended by a French East India Company garrison of about 40 Europeans and 500 troops.
Fetching the article from Wikipedia…
Text from the Wikipedia article “Battle of Chingleput”, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Battle of Chingleput was a short siege in early 1752, during the Second Carnatic War. About 700 East India Company recruits and sepoys under the command of Robert Clive captured the fortress of Chingleput, near Madras, defended by a French East India Company garrison of about 40 Europeans and 500 troops.
Text from the Wikipedia article “Battle of Chingleput”, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.