Complex sentence: Parkinson, p.61 Plans to eliminate the French presence in India had already been drawn up and the British and EIC forces, commanded on land by Colonel John Braithwaite moved rapidly, seizing Chandernagore, Karaikal, Yanam and Mahé without resistance.
Split into simpler sentences: Parkinson, p.61 Plans to eliminate the French presence in India had already been drawn up. The British and EIC forces, commanded on land by Colonel John Braithwaite, moved rapidly, seizing Chandernagore, Karaikal, Yanam and Mahé without resistance.