Battle of Colachel

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Battle of Colachel
Part of the Travancore-Dutch War
Eustachius De Lannoy surrendering to Raja Marthanda Varma at the Battle of Colachel.
Date 10 August 1741 Location Colachel, Travancore, Malabar Coast (present-day India, Tamil Nadu) 8°10′N 77°14′E / 8.17°N 77.24°E / 8.17; 77.24 Result Travancore Victory
Belligerents
Travancore	Dutch Republic Dutch East India Company
Commanders and leaders
Marthanda Varma Ramayyan Dalawa Pon Pandya Thevar of Tiruvelveli Maravar Cavalary	Eustachius De Lannoy (POW)
Casualties and losses
Negligible	24 officials were taken as POWs Muskets, swords, and cannons were captured

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The Battle of Colachel (or The Battle of Kolachel) was fought on 10 August 1741 [O.S. 31 July 1741]^[1][2] between the Indian kingdom of Travancore and the Dutch East India Company. During the Travancore-Dutch War, King Marthanda Varma's (1729–1758) forces defeated the Dutch East India Company's forces led by Admiral Eustachius De Lannoy on 10 August 1741. The Dutch never recovered from the defeat and no longer posed a large colonial threat to India.^[3] Travancore triumphed in the war thanks to the exceptional military efforts of the Travancore Nair Brigade at sea, along with the leadership of three Nair commanders—Arumukhan Pilla, Nanu Pilla, and Chembaka Raman Pilla—on land.^[4] Though in the war with Kayamkulam a regiment of Maravar from Tinnevelly under Ponnan Pandya Tevar also co-operated. It was the same army that defeated the Dutch at Colachel, where also the military genius of Ramayyan, not to speak of that of the Maharaja, was in conspicuous evidence.[1]^[5]