Porto Novo, a small port on the Coromandel coast of India, 145 miles S. of Madras by rail. Both the Danes and the Dutch had formerly a factory here. The place is celebrated for the battle fought here on 1st July 1781, when Sir Eyre Coote, with 8000 men, defeated Hyder Ali and an army of 60,000. From 1824 on for some years there was an iron-foundry here, the ore being brought from Salem. Pop. 7823.
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