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CUDDALORE

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 612 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CUDDALORE , a See also:

town of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:South See also:Arcot See also:district of See also:Madras, on the See also:coast 125 M. S. of Madras by See also:rail. Pop. (1901) 52,216, showing an increase of 1o% in the See also:decade. It lies See also:low, but is regarded as exceptionally healthy, and serves as a See also:kind of See also:sanatorium for the surrounding district. The See also:principal exports are See also:sugar, oil-seeds and See also:indigo. There are two colleges and two high See also:schools. In the neighbourhood are the ruins of Fort St See also:David situated on the See also:river Gadilam, which has i and 4 nat. See also:size. as stirring a See also:history a., any spot in the See also:Presidency. As a small fort built by a See also:Hindu See also:merchant it See also:fell into the hands of the See also:Mahrattas after the See also:capture of See also:Gingi by See also:Sivaji in 1677. From them it was See also:purchased by the See also:English in 169o, the See also:purchase including not only the fort but the adjacent towns and villages " within ye randome shott of a piece of See also:ordnance." A See also:great See also:gun was fired to different points of the See also:compass and all the See also:country within its range, including the town of Cuddalore, passed into the See also:possession of the English. The villages thus obtained are still spoken of as " See also:cannon See also:ball villages." From 1725 onwards the fortifications were greatly strengthened.

In 1746 Fort St Dayid became the British headquarters for the south of India, and See also:

Dupleix' attack was successfully repulsed. See also:Clive was appointed its See also:governor in 1756; in 1758 the See also:French captured it, but abandoned it two years later to See also:Sir See also:Eyre See also:Coote. In 1782 they again took it and restored it sufficiently to withstand a British attack in 1783. In 1785 it finally passed into British possession.

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