02nd October 2016.
The final point of our Heritage
walk around the Adyar Creek was at the junction of Pattinapakkam and Santhome
high Road, where the famous Battle of Adyar was took place. The battle
was a consequence of Fort St. George surrendering to the French early in October
1746. Nawab of Arcot in support of British sent his son Mahfuz Khan with troops
to ask the French to handover the Fort St George to British. Instead the
French chased them away. The Mahfuz Khan reinforcing his army to about 10000
soldiers moved south and seized Santhome, which was under the control of
French then and lined up on the north bank of river Adyar.
Two hundred French and French
trained Indian troops led by a Swiss mercenary, Caption Paradis, force marched
from Pondicherry and took the position on the south bank of river Adyar,
after capturing the Quibble Island on October 22, 1746. Paradis came
to know that De la Tour also from Fort St. George is marching to
wards Adyar to attack Mahfuz Khan from back. But he came very
late. On 24th Oct 1746, with a trained, disciplined and
systematic firing from the French troop led by Paradis, Mahfuz Khan with
his troop of 10000 men fled away towards Kanchipuram. The
Battle started in the morning and ended in the evening itself. This battle
taught a lesson to British to form Madras Regiment and trained the soldiers.
This also seeds the formation Indian army and Pakistan army.
Before finishing
of our Heritage we had seen the former Finance minister’s house on the banks of
Adyar River. Work is on to demolish and
construct new building. It was learnt that Mr Chidambaram was not given a share
of this property, since he married a other community woman.
… End of our
Heritage walk around Adyar creek.
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