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| conflict = Battle of Thrissur<br />
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| partof = Wars involving Travancore<br />
| date = {{start date and age|1763}}<br />
| place = [[Thrissur]], [[India]]<br />
| result = [[Travancore]] Victory<br />
| combatant1 = {{flagicon image|Former Travancore flag-Martanda Varma.png}} [[Kingdom of Travancore]]<br />
| combatant2 = [[Zamorin|Kingdom of Calicut]]<br />
| commander1 = [[Marthanda Pillai]]<br />
[[Eustachius De Lannoy]]<br />
| commander2 = [[Zamorin|Zamorin Raja]]<br />
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The '''Battle of Thrissur''' took place at [[Thrissur]] in 1763 between the forces of the [[Travancore|Kingdom of Travancore]] and the [[Zamorin|Zamorin of Calicut]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Shungoony Menon|first=P|url=https://archive.org/details/historyoftravanc0000shun/page/190/mode/2up|title=History of Travancore from the Earliest Times|year=1878|location=Madras|pages=190}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Panikkar|first=K.M|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.275322/page/n117/mode/2up|title=Malabar And The Dutch|year=1931|location=|pages=96–97}}</ref><br />
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== Prelude ==<br />
[[Paliath Achan]] of the [[Kingdom of Cochin]] and Maharaja [[Dharma Raja|Rama Varma]] of the [[Travancore|Kingdom of Travancore]] made an alliance to drive out the [[Zamorin|Zamorin of Calicut]] from the territories belonging to the [[Kochi Rajas|Raja of Kochi]]. Kingdom of Cochin accepted to cede parts of these territories to Travancore after the conquest.<ref name=":1" /><br />
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== Battle ==<br />
The Travancore army marched forward under the command of the Dalawa Martanda Pillai. On arriving at [[North Paravur|Paravur]], the Travancore commander on the advice of General [[Eustachius De Lannoy|de Lannoy]] decided upon a direct attack on [[Thrissur]] from two sides. For this purpose the army was grouped, in two divisions, one under Ayyappan Marthanda Pillai and the other under General [[Delannoy|de Lannoy]]. The plan was to make a converging attack on Thrissur, the Dalawa marching directly on it while the General was to capture [[Chetuva]] and attack it from the north. Thrissur was successfully occupied by Marthanda Pillai's force. The Zamorin's forces at Thrissur were caught within the blades of this scissors; but from this difficult position the ruler of Calicut extricated himself by ordering his garrison at Chetuva to fight desperate rearguard actions in which every inch of territory was resisted.<ref name=":1" /> Though the Zamorin's force resisted obstinately for a time, still it was no match to General [[Eustachius De Lannoy|de Lannoy]]' s disciplined army and it was therefore compelled to retreating.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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== Aftermath ==<br />
The Calicut forces evacuated the Cochin Territory. Zamorin sued for peace and agreed to indemnify [[Travancore]] for the expenses of the war by paying the moderate sum of one hundred and fifty thousand rupees, promising perpetual friendship.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Battle of Nedumkotta]]<br />
* [[Siege of Chale|Siege of Chaliyam]]<br />
* [[Battle of Colachel]]<br />
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[[Category:1763 in India]]</div>Sarker Tanvir Ahmed