One interpretation rejects treating the Indian Ocean fighting at Cuddalore as part of the American Revolutionary War. In this reading, British and French strategy concerned control of India, with distinct objectives from their campaigns in North America. The same objection extends to placing all contemporary Anglo-French battles in the Mediterranean, North Atlantic, and Caribbean under a single American label. The argument challenges a classification based on the shared period and belligerents because it obscures the separate strategic purposes of the campaigns.
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Interpreting Cuddalore as a struggle for India
Classifying the Cuddalore campaign raises the question of how a war's name reflects its separate theatres and strategic objectives.