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The fort capitulated once its walls were breached, and Negapatam passed to the British for good.
01A Dutch town on the Kaveri delta
The Dutch had taken Negapatam from the Portuguese in 1658 and made it the seat of their Coromandel trade. The port was old long before them: the Chola kings had given land here for a Buddhist vihara in the time of Rajaraja. News of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War reached Madras in 1781. With Coote busy against Haidar, the Governor of Madras, Lord Macartney, raised a force of his own and gave it to Hector Munro, with Admiral Hughes’s squadron and its marines in support.
02Breach and capitulation
Munro landed near the town in October, drove in the outposts held by Dutch and Mysore troops, and dug trenches before the walls. Sailors helped haul the guns. Once the batteries opened a breach in November, the Dutch governor capitulated rather than face an assault. The fall of Negapatam stripped Haidar of a port and a European ally on the coast. At the peace of 1784 the Dutch did not get it back.
Negapatam ended Dutch power on the Coromandel coast and cut Mysore off from one more source of help by sea.
