A force of six hundred and fifty…

January 1757 CE

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
Hooghly-Chinsura West Bengal India View →

People
Charles Godeheu View → Charles Watson View → Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah View → Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive View → Sirâj-ud-Daulah View →

Groups
France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of View → Carnatic, Nawabs of the View → Britain, Kingdom of Great View → East India Company, British (United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies) View → French Company of the Indies View → Hyderabad, State of View → Bengal, Nawabs of View →

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Colonization of Asia, French View → Colonization of Asia, British View → Carnatic Wars View → Seven Years' War View → Carnatic War, Third View → Chandannagar, Battle of View →

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Weapons View →

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