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Events on Friday 21 August 1778 1
1778Siege of PondicherryBritish forces capture France's main Indian colonyBritish troops besieged and captured Pondicherry, the principal French settlement in India, after France entered the American Revolutionary War. The siege extended the Anglo-French conflict into South Asia. Pondicherry was returned to France after the war.