A force of six hundred and fifty …
Years: 1757 - 1757
January
A force of six hundred and fifty men under Captain Coote and Major Kilpatrick storms and sacks the town of Hooghly, twenty-three miles (thirty-seven kilometers) north of Calcutta, on January 9, 1757.
Locations
People
- Charles Godeheu
- Charles Watson
- Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah
- Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive
- Sirâj-ud-Daulah
Groups
- France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of
- Carnatic, Nawabs of the
- Britain, Kingdom of Great
- East India Company, British (United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies)
- French Company of the Indies
- Hyderabad, State of
- Bengal, Nawabs of
Topics
- Colonization of Asia, French
- Colonization of Asia, British
- Carnatic Wars
- Seven Years' War
- Carnatic War, Third
- Chandannagar, Battle of
