Siege of Pondicherry (1748)

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]

The Siege of Pondichéry
Part of The First Carnatic War
A later artistic representation of the end of the siege, by Antoine Louis François Sergent dit Sergent-Marceau
Date August – 27 October 1748 Location Pondicherry (present-day India) 11°55′48.00″N 79°49′48.00″E Result French victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Great Britain	Kingdom of France French East India Company
Commanders and leaders
Edward Boscawen	Joseph François Dupleix
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