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

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Madras.

This city was invested by the French under Labourdonnais, with 9 ships and about 3,700 troops, mostly Europeans, September 14, 1746. It was defended by a garrison of 200, and after a week's bombardment, surrendered September 25. The garrison lost 5 men only; the French not a single man.