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Battle of colachel
Part of the Travancore-Dutch War
Eustachius De Lannoy surrendering to Raja Marthanda Varma at the battle of kolachel.
Date
10 August 1741
Location
Colachel, India
8°10′N77°14′E / 8.17°N 77.24°E / 8.17; 77.24
Result
Travancore Victory
Belligerents
Travancore
Dutch Empire
Dutch East India Company
Commanders and leaders
Marthanda Varma
Ramayyan Dalawa
Eustachius De Lannoy (POW)
Casualties and losses
Negligible
24 officials were taken as war prisoners
Muskets, swords, and cannons were captured
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The Battle of Colachel (or The Battle of Kolachel) was fought on 10 August 1741 [O.S. 31 July 1741][1][2]
between the Indian kingdom of Travancore and the Dutch East India Company. During the Travancore-Dutch War, King Marthanda Varma's (1729–1758) forces defeated the Dutch East India Company's forces led by Admiral Eustachius De Lannoy on 10 August 1741. The Dutch never recovered from the defeat and no longer posed a large colonial threat to India.[3]
Travancore won the war with the notable military service of the Travancore nair brigade[4]at the sea and seashore while Anantha padmanabhan Pillai commander in chief of the army at the land.[5]
^Ministry of Defence, Newsletter "Sainik Samachar", 15 April 2004
^The Hindu, "Army celebrates anniversary of Colachel battle", 31 July 2010
^M. O. Koshy 1989, pp. 70–.
^Oommen, Seema; Sivan Pillai, PM; Viswanathan, P; Nair, Sreeja; Nair, Kavitha (2013). "Burkholderia pseudomallei: Three cases in 6 months in Central Travancore". Journal of the Academy of Clinical Microbiologists. 15 (1): 19. doi:10.4103/0972-1282.116096. ISSN 0972-1282.
^"Could Marthanda Varma have won the Colachel War without the fishermen".
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