The busy port of Negapatam, on the Coromandel Coast; a view originally from c.1742

Source: ebay, Dec. 2004

"This view of Negapatan on the south coast of India was published in the 1702 French edition of  Recueil des voyages....translated from the Dutch 1645 edition of Begin ende voortgangh van de vereenighde Nederlantsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie, the original collection of travel accounts concerning the Dutch East India Company."

A Dutch fanam of the type minted at Negapatam, c.1657-1784

Source: http://www.vcoins.com/ancient/coinindia/store/viewitem.asp?idProduct=241
(downloaded July 2007)

"DUTCH INDIA: Gold fanam, Negapatam type. Obverse  Formalized figure of deity (Kali?) standing facing. Reverse  Degenerate (geometric?) design. Date  c. 1657-1784. Weight  0.34 gm. Diameter  6 mm."

A plan of Negapatam, in a view from 1752

Source: ebay, Sept. 2005

"Negapatam - India. London: Lintot & Osborn, 1752. Copper Engraving.From the 1752 London edition of 'A True and Exact Description of the most Celebrated East-India Coasts of Malabar and Coromandel; as also of the Isle of Ceylon' by Philip Baldaeus, a Dutch missionary."

The Battle of Negapatam, 1782, between the French and the English

Source: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/searchbin/searchs.pl?exhibit=it0516i&axis=1101400722&flash=true&dev=
(downloaded Dec. 2004)

"Battle of Negapatam, 6 July 1782. Artist: Dominic Serres, the Elder. Date: 1786. Oil on canvas. 1117.6 x 1828.8 mm. National Maritime Museum, London, Greenwich Hospital Collection. The French were seeking to take control of the British-held port of Negapatam on the eastern coast of India. There was no clear result but the British managed to force a French retreat. The action was fought with the two opposing fleets lined up in their squadrons firing at each other. This line formation dominated sea warfare in the 18th century."