Battle of Colachel was a land-sea amphibious battle fought between the Dutch East India Company and the Kingdom of Travancore aka Thiruvithamkoor. The King of Travancore/Thiruvithamkoor was Raja Martand Verma, this the same Royal family of Travancore which still serves as the caretakers of the Padmanabhswamy temple of Thiruvananthapuram/Trivandrum and Raja Martand Verma himself was the founder of this dynasty, while the Dutch forces were being led by Eustachius De Lannoy.
The Travancore/Thiruvithamkoor forces had soldiers mainly from 2 communities, Nairs which were Hindu and constituted the land forces, and the Mukkuvar which had both Hindus as well as Christians, the Mukkuvars were experts of marine warfare, together they completely routed the dutch forces from the souther Kerala/Malabar region.

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Anizham Thirunal Marthanda Varma Kulasekhara Perumal.( Tamil : மார்த்தாண்டவர்மா, 1706 – 7 July 1758: Malayalam : അനിഴം തിരുനാൾ മാർത്താണ്ഡവർമ്മ) was the founding monarch of the southern Indian Kingdom of Travancore (previously Venadu) from 1729 until his death in 1758. He was succeeded by Rama Varma ("Dharma Raja") (1758–98).

Marthanda Varma defeated the Dutch East India Company forces at the Battle of Colachel in 1741.He also put an end to the ettuveetil pillamars and the ettara yogam council and took the full power as a king. The Yogakars and Pillamars were always against the Royal Family of Venad (Padmabhaswamy Temple Judgement page :16) He then adopted a European mode of discipline for his army and expanded his kingdom northward (to what became the modern state of Travancore). He built a sizeable standing army of about 50,000 nair men, as part of designing an "elaborate and well-organised" war machine, with the role of the travancore army and fortified the northern boundary of his kingdom (Travancore Lines). His alliance in 1757 with the ruler of Kochi (Cochin), against the northern Kingdom of Calicut, enabled the kingdom of Kochi to survive.

Travancore under Marthanda Varma made a deliberate attempt to consolidate its power by the use of Indian Ocean trade. It was the policy of Marthanda Varma to offer assistance to Syrian Christian traders (as a means of limiting European involvement in ocean trade). The principal merchandise was black pepper, but other goods also came to be defined as royal monopoly items (requiring a license for trade) between the 1740s and the 1780s. Eventually, Travancore challenged and broke the Dutch blockade of the Kerala coast

Trivandrum became a prominent city in Kerala under Marthanda Varma. Marthanda Varma was an adopted Pandiyan prince destined to rule venad.Anandapadmanabhan was Marthanda Varmas own brother who was the last Tiruvadi who headed the Pandyan army and won the whole of present day Kerala. He undertook many irrigational works, built roads and canals for communication and gave active encouragement to foreign trade. In January, 1750, Marthanda Varma decided to "donate" his kingdom to the last Tiruvadi Sri Padmanabha (Vishnu) and thereafter rule as the deity's "vice-regent" (Sri Padmanabha Dasa).Marthanda Varma's policies were continued in large measure by his successor, [[Dharma Raja|Rama Varma ("Dharma Raja")

The Battle of Colachel was fought between The Kingdom of Travancore and Dutch East India Company in August 1741. The Battle resulted in a famous victory for the Travancore Forces ending Dutch colonial endeavours in the Indian Sub-continent.

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