Part of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War and the Second Anglo-Mysore War
A portrait of Edward Hughes
Date
21 October–11 November 1781
Location
Negapatam, then a Dutch colony in India
Result
British victory
Belligerents
Great Britain
Dutch Republic Sultanate of Mysore
Commanders and leaders
Hector Munro Edward Hughes
Reynier van Vlissingen Hyder Ali
Strength
4,000 troops
6,100 Dutch colonial troops
600 Dutch
5,500 Indian sepoys
2,100 Mysorean troops
Casualties and losses
Light
unknown killed/wounded thousands captured
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t
e
Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
Sint Eustatius
Sombrero
Gold Coast
Elmina
Essequibo and Demerara
Barbary Coast
Saldanha Bay
Dogger Bank
Negapatam
Trincomalee
v
t
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Second Anglo-Mysore War
Thalassery,
Arcot
1st Pollilur
Vellore
Porto Novo
2nd Pollilur
Sholinghur
Negapatam
Hyderghur
Annagudi
Bednore
Cuddalore
Palghautcherry
Mangalore
v
t
e
Dutch colonial campaigns
17th century
Bantam (1601)
Amboina (1605)
Malacca (1606)
Cape Rachado (1606)
Mozambique (1607)
Mozambique (1608)
Banda Islands (1609–21)
Johor (1613)
Macau (1622)
Pescadores (1622–24)
Salvador (1624)
Persian Gulf (1625)
Salvador (1625)
Elmina (1625)
Cuba (1628)
Batavia (1628–29)
Recife (1630)
Abrolhos (1631)
Liaoluo Bay (1633)
Taiwan (1635–36)
Brazil (1636)
Liuqiu Island (1636)
Porto Calvo (1637)
Elmina (1637)
Vietnam (1637–43)
Goa (1638)
Salvador (1638)
Mormugão (1639)
Itamaracá (1640)
Ceylon (1640)
Malacca (1641)
Luanda (1641)
Taiwan (1641)
Taiwan (1642)
Chile (1643)
Cambodia (1643–44)
New Netherland (1643–45)
Tabocas (1645)
Philippines (1646)
Kombi (1647)
Guararapes (1648)
Guararapes (1649)
Taiwan (1652)
2nd Recife (1652-1654)
2nd Colombo (1654)
Malabar (1658-1663)
New Netherland (1659–63)
South Africa (1659-1677)
Taiwan (1661–62)
Sri Lanka (1670-1670)
India (1673)
Java (1674–80)
18th century
Java (1704–07)
Java (1719–23)
India (1739–41)
Java (1741–43)
Penfui (1749)
Java (1749–57)
Sri Lanka (1764-1766)
India (1781)
Ceylon (1782)
Gold Coast (1782)
Cape Colony (1795)
19th century
Surinam (1804)
Cape Colony (1806)
Java (1806–07)
Moluccas (1810)
Java (1811)
Algiers (1816)
Ambon (1817)
Palembang (1819)
Palembang (1821)
Sumatra (1821–37)
Borneo (1823)
Bone (1824–25)
Java (1825–30)
Aceh (1831)
Ahanta (1837–39)
Bali (1846)
Bali (1848)
Bali (1849)
Palembang (1851–59)
Montrado (1854–55)
Nias (1855–64)
Bali (1858)
Bone (1858–59)
Borneo (1859–63)
Japan (1863–64)
Pasoemah (1864–68)
Gold Coast (1869–70)
Aceh (1873–1913)
Mandor (1884–85)
Jambi (1885)
Edi (1890)
Lombok and Karangasem (1894)
Pedir (1897–98)
20th century
Kerinci (1903)
Bone (1905–06)
Bali (1906)
Bali (1908)
Venezuela (1908)
Indonesia (1941–45)
Indonesia (1946–49)
The siege of Negapatam was the first major offensive military action on the Indian subcontinent following the arrival of news that war had been declared between Great Britain and the Dutch Republic, beginning the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War. A British force besieged the Dutch-controlled port of Negapatam, the capital of Dutch Coromandel, on the eastern coast of India, which capitulated after the fortification's walls were breached. The Dutch garrison consisted of 500 European troops, 5,500 local troops, and 2,000 troops of Hyder Ali, the ruler of Mysore.
While many British troops were occupied with fighting Hyder Ali's armies as part of the Second Anglo-Mysore War, and General Eyre Coote was opposed to offensive actions against the Dutch, Lord Macartney, the governor of Madras, was able to raise more than 4,000 troops and secure the assistance of Admiral Sir Edward Hughes to defeat the larger Dutch and Mysorean defence force.
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