Ambur

Ambur is a town and region in Vellore District, Tamil Nadu, India. It is situated on the banks of the Palar River among Chennai and Bangalore. Ambur was the site of two noteworthy military activities in the eighteenth Century. The first was the 1749 Battle of Ambur that opened the Second Carnatic War between the Arcot State and the Mughal Empire. In 1767, the Siege of Ambur occurred amid the First Anglo-Mysore War, with neighborhood troops and a British power effectively opposing an assault by the Kingdom of Mysore and by the Hyderabad State