2023 · Q100
Name the battle in which the Travancore King defeated the Dutch in 1741.
General KnowledgeHistory of India
- AThe Batthle of Porto Novo
- BThe Battle of Colachel
- CThe Battle of Pollilore
- DThe Battle of Changanassery
Explanation
At the Battle of Colachel (August 1741), the forces of Travancore king Marthanda Varma decisively defeated the Dutch East India Company — the first major Asian victory over a European naval power in India, curtailing Dutch ambitions on the Malabar coast. Porto Novo (1781) and Pollilur (1780) were Second Anglo-Mysore War battles; Changanassery was not a Dutch battle.