Anglo French Wars in India - Carnatic wars

As a result of these military contests, the British East India Company established its dominance among the European trading companies within India. 

The French company was pushed to a corner and was confined primarily to Pondichéry. 

The East India Company's dominance eventually led to control by the British Company over most of India and eventually to the establishment of the British Raj.

First Carnatic War (1746–1748)

Battle of Adyar

In the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748), Madras was given back to the British in exchange for the French fortress of Louisbourg in North America, which the British had captured. 

The war was principally notable in India as the first military experience of Robert Clive, who was taken prisoner at Madras but managed to escape, and who then participated in the defence of Cuddalore and the siege of Pondicherry.

Second Carnatic War (1749–1754)[edit]

In 1751, however, Robert Clive led British troops to capture Arcot, and successfully defend it.

 The war ended with the Treaty of Pondicherry, signed in 1754, which recognised Muhammad Ali Khan Walajah as the Nawab of the Carnatic. 

Third Carnatic War (1756–1763)[edit]

The Third Carnatic War spread beyond southern India and into Bengal where British forces captured the French settlement of Chandernagore (now Chandannagar) in 1757.

 However, the war was decided in the south, where the British successfully defended Madras, and Sir Eyre Coote decisively defeated the French, commanded by Comte de Lally at the Battle of Wandiwash in 1760. After Wandiwash, the French capital of Pondicherry fell to the British in 1761.^[2]

The war concluded with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763, which returned Chandernagore and Pondichéry to France, and allowed the French to have "factories" (trading posts) in India but forbade French traders from administering them.