Battle of Golden Rock
Battle of Golden Rock | |
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Part of Trichinopoly | |
Result | British victory |
- British East India Company
- Arcot State
Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah
- Monsieur Astruc (French)
- Nandiraj, Dalavayi of Mysore
- Ballappa (Maratha)
- Major Lawrence
- 300 Europeans
- 1,300 Sepoys
- 8 6-pounder cannons
- Nawab of Arcot's 100 horse
- Monsieur Astruc
- 450 Europeans
- 1,500 Sepoys
- Artillery
- Nandiraj
- 8000 Mysore Cavalry
- 2 companies of Topasses (1,000 sepoys)
- 15,000 irregular infantry armed with matchlocks, swords, bow & arrows, pikes, clubs and rockets.
- Ballappa
- 3500 Maratha Cavalry
3 cannons lost
Second Carnatic War
The Battle of Golden Rock was fought between forces of the
Trichinopoly, drawing the main British force defending Trichinopoly. The British, commanded by Stringer Lawrence
, were victorious.
References
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- ^ 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.