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What role did Joseph François Dupleix have in the War of the Austrian Succession?

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When the War of the Austrian Succession brought the French and British East India companies into conflict, Dupleix supervised the capture of Madras (now Chennai; 1746) and successfully defended Pondichéry, but the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748) restored the prewar situation.

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