Le jardin botanique de Pondichéry (aussi appelé localement Puducherry Botanical Garden, en anglais; ou புதுச்சேரி தாவரவியல் பூங்கா en tamoul) est un établissement public situé à Pondichéry, sur le territoire de Pondichéry, en Inde.
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Bussy was a state assembly constituency in the Indian union territory of Puducherry. It was in existence from the 1964 to 2006 state elections.
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Providence Mall is a shopping mall in Pondicherry promoted by Prashanth Properties Private Limited. Its total area is 0.25 million square feet. The rather small mall contains shops, sale outlets, a food court and a cinema. It was inaugurated on 12 November 2017 by V. Narayanasamy, the Chief Minister of Puducherry.
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Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a Roman Catholic minor basilica situated on the south boulevard of Pondicherry in Puducherry, India, and is an oriental specimen of Gothic Revival architecture. It contains rare stained glass panels depicting events from the life of Christ and saints of the Catholic Church. In recent years it has become one of the famous pilgrimage spots for Christians.
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The siege of Pondicherry was conducted by British forces against a French East India Company garrison under the command of Governor-General Joseph François Dupleix at the Indian port of Pondicherry. The British siege strategy, conducted with inexperience in siege tactics by Admiral Edward Boscawen, was lifted with the arrival of monsoon rains, on 27 October 1748. The siege was the last major action of the First Carnatic War, as the Indian theatre of the War of the Austrian Succession is sometimes known.
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The siege of Pondicherry was a colonial military operation in the early stages of the French Revolutionary Wars. Britain and France both controlled colonies on the Indian subcontinent and when the French National Convention declared war on Britain on 1 February 1793, both sides were prepared for conflict in India. British India was centred on the principal ports of Bombay, Madras and Calcutta, administered by the East India Company. French India was governed from Pondicherry on the Coromandel Coast. British forces in India were considerably stronger than the French, with the Presidency armies supported by British Army detachments and a Royal Navy squadron under Rear-Admiral William Cornwallis. Pondicherry's defenses were strong, but the garrison was too small to effectively man the walls, and although a French frigate squadron was stationed at the distant Île de France, it was unable to effectively protect the French Indian coast.
News of the outbreak of war took five months to reach the Indian Ocean but British forces, recently engaged in the Third Anglo-Mysore War, were mobilised in preparation and immediately seized the ports of French India. Only Pondicherry was able to resist, and a siege was instigated on 1 August 1793 by Colonel John Braithwaite while Cornwallis imposed a naval blockade. British forces constructed trenches and batteries, often under heavy fire, over the following weeks. Twenty days after the city was cut off, Braithwaite began a bombardment of the defences. Within hours the French commander Colonel Prosper de Chermont requested a truce, followed the next morning by an unconditional surrender.
