Muhammed Yusuf Khan initially succeeded and became the Nawab, forcing Muhammed Ali to escape to the rock-fort in Tiruchirapalli. Chanda Sahib followed and with the help of the French, besieged Trichy. Muhammed Ali and the English force supporting him were in a grim position. Ensign Robert Clive, (who had earlier joined the East India Company as a writer) with a small English force of 300 soldiers made a diversionary attack on Arcot to draw away Chanda Sahib's army from Trichy. Chanda Sahib dispatched a 10,000 strong force under his son Raza Sahib to retake Arcot. Raza Sahib was aided by the Nellore Army
Syed Muhammed Abul Faiz Syed Muhammed Abul Faiz Syed Muhammed Abul Faiz (known as SMA Faiz) is a Bangladeshi academic. He served as the 26th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dhaka serving from September 2002 until January 2009. Though an academic and a scientific researcher by profession, Faiz was also the chairman of the Public Service Commission of Bangladesh before his tenure as the vice-chancellor. With a bygone ancestry in the district of 24 Parganas at West Bengal State in India, Faiz was brought up in Dhaka mostly. His father AKKB Syed Muhammed Hasan Ali did his graduation from the Presidency College in India.