Battle of Negapatam
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The <entity_1> was the third in the series of battles fought between a <entity_4> fleet, under Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes, and a French fleet, under the Bailli de Suffren, off the coast of India during the <entity_0>. The <entity_6> was fought on <entity_2>. The <entity_6> was indecisive but Suffren was stopped in his goal by Hughes and withdrew to Cuddalore, while the <entity_4> remained in control of <entity_3>. <entity_5> had entered the <entity_0> in 1778, and Britain declared war on the Dutch Republic in late 1780, after the Dutch refused to stop trading in military supplies with the French and the Americans. When the <entity_4> sent an army of 12,000 toward Vandavasi to relieve the siege, du Chemin, against the wishes of Hyder, refused to engage in a <entity_6> that the Franco-Mysorean force would probably have won (which would have significantly reduced the <entity_4> military presence in India). As his fleet had grown by captured prizes and arrivals from Île de <entity_5> (it was now twelve ships of the line and four frigates), Suffren gave chase and caught up with Hughes, who had anchored off <entity_3>, on 5 July. Suffren had been thwarted in his efforts to take to <entity_3> – he stripped M. Bouvet, the captain of Ajax, of his command, and arrested three others for a variety of transgressions in this <entity_6> and the previous two. <entity_3> would remain in <entity_4> hands until the end of the war.
['battle', 'naval battle']