Battle of Chinsurah

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Battle of Chinsurah
Part of the Seven Years' War
A 1787 painting of Chinsurah by William Hodges
Date 24-25 November 1759 Location Chinsurah, Bengal Subah 22°54′N 88°23′E / 22.90°N 88.39°E / 22.90; 88.39 Result British victory
Belligerents
East India Company Bengal Subah	Dutch East India Company
Commanders and leaders
Francis Forde Charles Wilson Mir Jafar	Jean-Baptiste Roussel
Strength
300 European infantrymen 800 sepoys 50 European cavalrymen 200 Indian cavalrymen 3 warships 100 Bengali cavalrymen	150 Europeans (garrison) 300 sepoys (garrison) 700 Europeans (reinforcements) 800 Malays (reinforcements) 7 warships
Casualties and losses
Unknown	320 killed 300 wounded 550 captured 6 warships captured 1 warship grounded
Chinsurah class=notpageimage| Location within West Bengal Show map of West Bengal Chinsurah Chinsurah (India) Show map of India

The Battle of Chinsurah, also known as the Battle of Biderra or the Battle of Hoogly, took place on 25 November 1759 near Chinsurah during the Seven Years' War. It was fought between forces of the British East India Company (EIC) and the Dutch East India Company (VOC), the latter of whom had been invited in 1759 by the Nawab of Bengal, Mir Jafar, to help him expel the EIC and establish the VOC as the leading European power in Bengal.

Despite the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Dutch Republic not formally being at war, the VOC's forces advanced up the Hooghly River. They met a force of Bengal Army troops under Francis Forde at Chinsurah on 25 November, fifty kilometres from Calcutta. Forde's troops defeated the Dutch, forcing them to withdraw. Several EIC ships had earlier engaged and defeated the ships the VOC used to deliver the troops in a separate naval battle on 24 November.^[1]