The 1741 Battle of Colachel by Nairs of Travancore under Raja Marthanda Varma was therefore a rearguard action.

The Travancore Nair Infantry was formed in 1704 for the defense of the Maharajah Marthanda Varma, and distinguished themselves in battle against the Dutch at the Battle of Colachel ( 1741 ).

In 1739 his father, then stationed at Gibraltar, applied for the governorship of the Province of New York ; he won the post in 1741 with the assistance of the Duke of Newcastle ( who was his brother's brother-in-law ).

John Theophilus Desaguliers has won the medal the most often, in 1734, 1736 and 1741.

He then commanded a grenadier battalion with great distinction at the battle of Mollwitz, and won further glory in the celebrated minor combat of Rothschloss, where the Prussian hussars defeated the Austrians ( May 17, 1741 ).

* 1741 – War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz.

File: Prussian Army during battle of Mollwitz 1741. PNG | The Prussian infantry during the Battle of Mollwitz, 1741

In March 1741, the city endured a large-scale attack by British and American colonial troops led by Admiral Edward Vernon ( 1684 – 1757 ), who arrived at Cartagena with a massive fleet of 186 ships and 23, 600 men, including 12, 000 infantry, against six Spanish ships and fewer than 6, 000 men, in an action known as the Battle of Cartagena de Indias, part of the War of Jenkin's Ear.

) Other notable Revolutionary War era residents included Asa Pollard ( 1735 – 1775 ), the first soldier killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and Thomas Ditson ( born 1741 ), who was tarred and feathered by the British in 1775 while on a visit to Boston.

* Battle of Cartagena de Indias, a 1741 battle in Cartagena, Columbia

He succeeded in defeating the Dutch East India Company during the Travancore-Dutch War ( 1739 – 1753 ), the most decisive engagement of which was the Battle of Colachel ( 10 August 1741 ) in which the Dutch Admiral Eustachius De Lannoy was captured.

After distinguishing himself at the Battle of Mollwitz ( April 10, 1741 ) and the siege of Neisse ( 1741 ), he was promoted to captain in 1749 and major in 1756.

In May 1741, shortly after Augustus ' birth, Richard participated in the Battle of Cartagena de Indias ( 1741 ), the most significant battle of the War of Jenkins ' Ear ( 1739 – 1742 ), during the course of which he died, most likely of yellow fever ,< ref >

The Battle of Mollwitz was fought by Prussia and Austria on 10 April 1741, during the early stages of the War of the Austrian Succession.

Battle of Mollwitz, 10 April 1741.

Leopold was essentially an infantry soldier ; in his time, artillery usually did not decide battles, but he nonetheless chose to neglect the cavalry service, with results that manifested themselves at the Battle of Mollwitz in 1741.

One of the most spectacular instances of such a failure occurred in 1741 at the Battle of Cartagena de Indias, when a large British empire amphibious assault force with a compromised command was defeated by a much smaller but well organised and led Spanish empire defence.

Additionally, he served in the military during his periods in Parliament — he became Colonel of the 39th Regiment of Foot ( 1737 – 1738 ) and the 21st Regiment of Foot ( 1738 – 1752 ), serving with honour in the Battle of Dettingen in 1741.

The Spanish quickly recovered the Panamanian town and defeated Admiral Vernon in the Battle of Cartagena de Indias in 1741.

* Lord Aubrey Beauclerk ( c. 1710 – 22 March 1741 ), became a captain in the Royal Navy, and died at the Battle of Cartagena de Indias.

VOC ’ s dire situation after the Battle of Tugu in July 1741 did not escape the king ’ s attention, but – like Amangkurat II – he avoided any open breach with VOC since his own kraton was not lacking of factions against him.

The next action of the regiment was in 1741 during the Hats ' Russian War and the Battle of Villmanstrand, the last of the regiment's major battles.

* Thomas Wentworth ( general ), British major-general in charge of land forces during the 1741 Battle of Cartagena de Indias

Battle of Cartagena de Indias, 1741.

He defeated the Dutch in the Colachel War in 1741, but maintained good relations with the British East India Company for tactical reasons.

In the War of Austrian Succession, the British carried out unsuccessful attacks against Santiago de Cuba in 1741 and again in 1748.

On 22 December 1741, Benedict XIV promulgated the papal bull " Immensa Pastorum principis " against the enslavement of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and other countries.

Vernon block port ordered the March 13, 1741, while landed a contingent of troops and artillery destined to take the Fort de San Luis de Bocachica a few meters from where now stands the Fort of San Fernando de Bocachica, against that simultaneously fired British ships at a rate of 62 per hour cannon.

The largest action of the war was a major amphibious attack launched by the British under Admiral Edward Vernon in March, 1741 against Cartagena de Indias, one of Spain's principal gold-trading ports in their colony of New Granada ( today Colombia ).

He was stationed in Riga, but participated in two campaigns against the Turks in 1740 and 1741.

In 1741 he was sent from England to St. Helena to investigate charges of corruption brought against the acting governor, and from May 1741 until March 1742 he administered the affairs of the island.

The most obvious method of rendering the Russian alliance unserviceable to the queen of Hungary was by implicating Russia in hostilities with her ancient rival, Sweden, and this was brought about, by French influence and French money, when in August 1741 the Swedish government, on the most frivolous pretexts, declared war against Russia.

On July 20, 1741 war was formally declared against Russia ; a month later the Diet was dissolved and the lantmarskalk set off to Finland to take command of the army.

Richardson ’ s epistolary tale of a resolute servant girl, armed only with her ‘ virtue ’, battling against her master ’ s attempts at seduction had become an overnight literary sensation in 1741.

In 1741, Pope finally prevailed against Curll in the courts.

In 1741 the main British campaign against Spain was a combined amphibious attack on the South American city of Cartagena, which had experienced considerable delays.

In 1741 he was named lieutenant of a ship of the provincial guarda-costa, or coast guard, which the colony had established to protect against potential Spanish attack.

In 1739, British Admiral Edward Vernon raided Portobello, but in 1741 his massive campaign against Cartagena de Indias ended in defeat with heavy losses of men and ships.

Made lieutenant in 1739, he participated in the 1741 expedition against Cartagena, serving on the frigate Norfolk, under his uncle and future admiral, Captain Thomas Graves.

With the Treaty of Nymphenburg signed in July 1741, Charles Albert allied with France and Spain against Austria.

* 18 July 1741 — Vice Admiral Edward Vernon, with 3, 000 British troops under General Wentworth, arrived at Guantánamo Bay to begin an unsuccessful campaign against Santiago.

In 2004, the Delaware Nation filed suit against Pennsylvania in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, seeking included in the 1737 Walking Purchase and patented in 1741, which was known as " Tatamy's Place.

As the war was badly prepared and without the expected initial success, anger rose against the king within the military ranks deployed to Finland, where the memory of the harsh Russian occupations of 1713 – 21 ( the " Greater Wrath ") ( Isoviha in Finnish ) and 1741 – 43 ( the " Lesser Wrath ") ( Pikkuviha in Finnish ) remained vivid.

In 1741 Adam was forced to initiate legal proceedings against William, Lord Braco, to retrieve unpaid fees arising from his work at Duff House.

In 1741 appeared a ‘ Discourse on Miracles ,’ arguing that they can at most afford a ‘ probable proof ’ of a revelation ; in 1743 an ‘ Enquiry concerning Redemption ,’ in which he defends himself against some sneers of William Warburton's ; and in 1745, ‘ The Ground and Foundation of Morality considered ,’ an attack on Thomas Rutherforth's theory of self-love.