Chitra Katha

Marthanda VarmaVictor of Colachel

In August 1741 at Colachel the king of Travancore defeated the Dutch East India Company’s force and took its commander Eustachius De Lannoy into his own service.

1705–1758 CE; ruled 1729–1758

The full life

1Came to the throne of Venad in 1729.Marthanda Varma · The people

2Defeated the Dutch at Kolachel on 10 August 1741.Marthanda Varma · The Dutch

3Took the Dutch officer De Lannoy into his service.Marthanda Varma · The Dutch

4Dedicated Travancore to Sri Padmanabha in January 1750.Marthanda Varma

5Died on 7 July 1758.Marthanda Varma

Sources for these facts

Treaty of Mavelikkara, 1753
Dutch East India Company (VOC) records, Cochin
P. Shungoonny Menon, A History of Travancore (1878)

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