Battle of Golden Rock
| Battle of Golden Rock | |||||||
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| Part of Second Carnatic War | |||||||
 An 1845 representation of the battle from a board game | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Stringer Lawrence Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah |
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| Strength | |||||||
- 300 Europeans |
- 450 Europeans
- 8000 Mysore Cavalry
- 3500 Maratha Cavalry | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 200 sepoys | 3 cannons lost | ||||||
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Second Carnatic War
- Ambur
- Divicotta
- Tanjore
- Trichinopoly
- Arcot
- Arnee
- Chingleput
- Golden Rock
- Seringham
- Sugar-Loaf Rock
- Tondeman's Woods
The Battle of Golden Rock was fought between forces of the British and French East India Companies on 26 June 1753, during the Second Carnatic War. French troops, assisted by Mysorean troops led by Monsieur Astruc,[3] assaulted a British outpost near Trichinopoly, drawing the main British force defending Trichinopoly. The British, commanded by Stringer Lawrence, were victorious.
References
- ^ Orme, Robert (1780). History of the Military Transaction of the British nation in Indostan from the MDCCXLV (3rd ed.). Vol-001. London. p. 292.
- ^ Begbie, Peter James (1852). History of the Services of the Madras Artillery, with a Sketch of the Rise of the Power of the East India Company in Southern India. D.P.L.C. Connor, at the Christian Knowledge Society's Press, to be had of Messrs. Franck and Company. p. 61.
- ^ Orme, Robert (1780). History of the Military Transaction of the British nation in Indostan from the MDCCXLV (3rd ed.). Vol-001. London. p. 289.
