Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Chandernagore (Seven Years' War).

This place was besieged March 14, 1757, by Clive, with 2,000 Company's troops, and defended by 600 Frenchmen and 300 Sepoys. On the 19th three British ships under Admiral Watson arrived, and on the 24th a joint attack by sea and land resulted in the capture of the place.