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 | In the First Carnatic War, part of Europe's War of the Austrian Succession (1740–48), the French, led by Joseph François Dupleix, captured the British territory of Madras, but it was returned to the British by the peace treaty. |
| The Second Carnatic War (1751–54) was an unofficial war fought between the British East India Co. and the French Compagnie de Indes at a time when there was peace between the two powers in Europe. |
| The daring of the East India Co.'s Robert Clive, who defeated the French-backed claimant to the throne of the Carnatic, ended the second phase of Anglo-French struggle in India as Dupleix was recalled to France in 1754. |
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