The Battle of Negapatam was an indecisive battle between a British squadron under Vice-Admiral George Pocock and French squadron under Comte d'Aché off the Carnatic coast of India near Negapatam during the Seven Years War. The battle took place on 3 August1758. Nagapattinam (also formerly known as Negapatam) is a small city of about a 100,000 population located in Coastal Tamil Nadu state in India. ... This article is about the 1756–1763 war. ... August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining. ... 1758 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
In the west, the French were beaten in the Battle of Rheinberg and the Battle of Krefeld by Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick.
In the east, at the Battle of Zorndorf in Prussia, a Prussian army of 35,000 men under Frederick fought to a standstill with a Russian army of 43,000 commanded by Count Fermor.
The battle was the final battle of the war in North America and forced the French to surrender St. John's to the British under the command of Colonel William Amherst.
In 1703, after many years of skirmishes and battles with such nations as France, the Netherlands and Spain, not to mention the Barbary Pirates, Newcastle came to a tragic end, being sunk, not in battle, but by a storm off Spithead.
The rest of her career was mainly spent in the Caribbean and Mediterranean before she was sold in 1746.
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