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Marquis de Bussy
Charles Joseph Patissier, Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau, was a French commander in India under Joseph François Dupleix. From 1751 he placed and kept Salabat Jung on the throne of Hyderabad with a French force, gaining the Northern Circars for France in 1753. Recalled in 1758, he was captured at the Battle of Wandiwash in 1760, and he died in Pondicherry in 1785 during a final command in India.
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