Second carnatic war brought laurels to the British justify
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Answer:In 1756, the Seven Years’ War started in Europe and Britain and France again found themselves in opposite camps. That led to the Third Carnatic War in India between the English and the French. But no engagement took place between the two in 1756. They started attacking each other’s possessions in 1757. The French succeeded in capturing larger part of Karnataka though they failed to capture the strongholds of the English like Trichinopoly, Arcot, Madras, St. David etc. The English gained more success in the North. They captured all the important places of the French in Bengal and Bihar.
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The major engagements between the two Companies, in fact, started in 1758 when Count de Lally came to India as the commander of the French forces as well as the governor of the Company. Lally was a capable and daring commander. But he was haughty in his temperament and an idealist by nature. Therefore having succeeded initially he failed ultimately. He captured St. David immediately after his arrival in India. He next planned to attack Madras but the governor at Pondicherry showed his inability to finance the attack and Count de Ache refused to make a naval attack on Madras. Lally then attacked Tanjore to get some booty but had to withdraw because of the arrival of the English force to oppose him. Meanwhile de Ache was defeated by the English on the sea and was forced to withdraw to Mauritius with his ships much against the wishes of Lally. Yet, Lally besieged Madras in 1758. He recalled Bussy from Hyderabad for his help. But, he failed to gain any success. The French influence in Hyderabad disappeared with the departure of Bussy from there. The English received reinforcement from Bengal. Lally was forced to raise the siege of Madras in 1759.
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