Lieutenant-General Sir Eyre Coote, KB was an Anglo-Irish army officer and politician who represented Leicester and Poole in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1768 to 1780. He is best known fo
c. 1763 portrait
Memorial at Westminster Abbey by Thomas Banks
Monument to Eyre Coote in West Park
Carnatic wars
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The Carnatic wars were a series of military conflicts in the middle of the 18th century in India's coastal Carnatic region, a dependency of Hyderabad State, India. The first Carnatic wars were fought
Eyre Coote (East India Company officer)
…Army Years of service 1745–1783 Rank Lieutenant-general Commands 84th Regiment of Foot Commander-in-Chief of India Battles/wars Jacobite Rising of 1745 Second Carnatic War Seven Years' War Battle of Plassey Battle of Wandiwash Second Anglo-Mysore War Lieutenant-General Sir Eyre Coote, KB (c. 1726 – 28 April 1783) was an…
Lord Clive meeting with Mir Jafar after the Battle of Plassey in 1757 Francis Hayman, c. 1762
The Carnatic Region of what is now India
British Admiral Edward Boscawen besieged Pondicherry in the later months of 1748.