Battle of Golden Rock

Battle of Golden Rock
Part of Second Carnatic War

British Attack Plan of The Battle of Golden Rock
Date26 June 1753
Location
Trichinopoly
Result British victory
Belligerents

 Great Britain

France

Commanders and leaders
Stringer Lawrence
Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah
  • Monsieur Astruc (French)
  • Nandiraj, Dalavayi of Mysore
  • Ballappa (Maratha)
 †[1]
Strength
  • Major Lawrence

- 300 Europeans
- 1,300 Sepoys
- 8 6-pounder cannons
- Nawab of Arcot's 100 horse

  • Monsieur Astruc

- 450 Europeans
- 1,500 Sepoys
- Artillery

  • Nandiraj

- 8,000 Mysore Cavalry
- 2 companies of Topasses (1,000 sepoys)
- 15,000 irregular infantry armed with matchlocks, swords, bow & arrows, pikes, clubs and rockets.

  • Ballappa

- 3,500 Maratha Cavalry

Casualties and losses
200 sepoys

3 cannons lost

600 cavalry dead[2]

The Battle of Golden Rock was fought between forces of the British and French East India Companies on 26 June 1753, during the Second Carnatic War. French troops, assisted by Mysorean troops led by Monsieur Astruc,[3] assaulted a British outpost near Trichinopoly, drawing the main British force defending Trichinopoly. The British, commanded by Stringer Lawrence, were victorious.

  1. ^ Orme, Robert (1780). History of the Military Transaction of the British nation in Indostan from the MDCCXLV (3rd ed.). Vol-001. London. p. 292.
  2. ^ Begbie, Peter James (1852). History of the Services of the Madras Artillery, with a Sketch of the Rise of the Power of the East India Company in Southern India. D.P.L.C. Connor, at the Christian Knowledge Society's Press, to be had of Messrs. Franck and Company. p. 61.
  3. ^ Orme, Robert (1780). History of the Military Transaction of the British nation in Indostan from the MDCCXLV (3rd ed.). Vol-001. London. p. 289.