The British occupation of Serampore also referred to as the English occupation of Serampore (Danish: Den engelske besættelse af Serampore) was a siege and thereafter a minor military occupation by the United Kingdom on the Danish trading post of Serampore (Frederiksnagore) in 1763.

In 1755 the Danes got permission from Alivardi Khan to establish a trading post at the Hooghly River near Calcutta.^[1] The colony of Frederiksnagore was established as a result of this agreement. ^[1]

In 1756, the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj ud-Daulah, wanted the Danes to assist him in the Siege of Calcutta.^[2] However, because of bad living conditions, the Danes refused to support the siege, and ud-Daulah thereafter fined the Danes 25,000 Indian rupees.^[2][3] Later in 1757, the English would blockade the Danish vessel King of Denmark from entering Serampore, because of the Danish hospitality to the French.^[3]

A more serious incident with the British happened in 1763.^[2][3] Demarchis, the commander of Serampore, took office in 1762 and the British quickly took a hostile view of him.^[4] This hostility only grew bigger when some English sepoys were changed with 25 lashes each, because of their assaulting on Danish peons.^[3] As a response, a British force surrounded Serampore on 4 April and would besiege it until 15 April when the British could take over.^[4] The occupation did not last long though, and already in the same year, the British withdrew the city because of a Danish apology.^[2]

As a result, this left Serampore being a rather impoverished colony in the first two decades of its existence.^[1][2][3] Subsequently, Demarchis would be deposed from his post as commander three years later in 1766 and would return to Copenhagen.^[4]

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• Carnatic wars – 18th century wars between the French and the British
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• Bhaduri, Saugata (2021-12-30). Polycoloniality: European Transactions with Bengal from the 13th to the 19th Century. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-93-89812-56-5.
• O'Malley, Lewis Sydney Steward (1985). Hooghly. Logos.