Atlas of Battles

commander, 6 engagements

Battles of Joseph François Dupleix

Battles of Joseph François Dupleix

Governor of French India, 1697 to 1763

Joseph François Dupleix is recorded as a commander at 6 placed engagements in the atlas between 1746 and 1751: 3 battles and 3 sieges, all in present-day India. Taken in date order, the sites lie 778 km apart end to end, 156 km between engagements on average. Most belong to War of the Austrian Succession (2), Second Carnatic War (2).

Siege of TrichinopolyBattle of MadrasSiege of PondicherrySiege of CuddaloreBattle of AmburSiege of ArcotBattle of MadrasSiege of PondicherrySiege of CuddaloreBattle of AmburSiege of ArcotBengaluruCoimbatoreTiruchirappalliMysuruSalemTumakuruMandyaVelloreKolarKumbakonam200 km11.955N, 79.484E
6 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1746: 1 engagements1748: 2 engagements2 in 17481749: 1 engagements1751: 2 engagements2 in 175117461751
6 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Battle of Madras, 1746Siege of Pondicherry, 1748Siege of Cuddalore, 1748Battle of Ambur, 1749Siege of Trichinopoly, 1751Siege of Arcot, 175117461751
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 2

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
1746Battle of MadrasChennai, IndiaFrench victory
29 April 1748Siege of PondicherryPondicherry, India137 km SFrench victory
1748Siege of CuddaloreCuddalore, India22 km SWBritish victory
3 August 1749Battle of AmburAmbur, India162 km NWAllied victory
July 1751Siege of TrichinopolyTiruchirappalli, India217 km SBritish-Maratha Allied Victory
23 September 1751Siege of ArcotArcot, India241 km NBritish-Wallajah-Maratha victory; Wallajah becomes the...

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Antoine Louis François Sergent dit Sergent-Marceau, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.