Eustachius de Lannoy

Eustachius Benedictus (Eustache Benoît) de Lannoy (also spelled "Lennoy" and sometimes called 'Captain De Lannoy') (1715 – 1 June 1777, Udayagiri Fort) is a Flemish naval commander of the Dutch East India Company, who is sent by the company to help establish a trading post at Colachel, Southern India, but is defeated at the Battle of Colachel by the Travancore army under Maharaja Marthanda Varma in 1741, and subsequently becomes a valiant and successful commander of the same foreign army that had defeated him.

His role as military commander of the Travancore army is instrumental in the later military successes and exploits of Travancore under Marthanda Varma.

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