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    The Battle of Plassey in 1757 was a significant victory for the British East India Company over the much larger force of the Bengal Nawab and French allies under Robert Clive's leadership. This victory allowed the British to replace the Nawab of Bengal with a more compliant ruler, Mir Jafar, after conspiring with discontented generals. On June 23rd at the village of Plassey, Clive's army of 2,000 Indian sepoys and 600 British troops defeated the Nawab's army of 40,000 men through superior tactics and the use of artillery during a rainstorm, securing British interests in Bengal and laying the foundation for British rule in India.

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    The Battle of Plassey in 1757 was a significant victory for the British East India Company over the much larger force of the Bengal Nawab and French allies under Robert Clive's leadership. This victory allowed the British to replace the Nawab of Bengal with a more compliant ruler, Mir Jafar, after conspiring with discontented generals. On June 23rd at the village of Plassey, Clive's army of 2,000 Indian sepoys and 600 British troops defeated the Nawab's army of 40,000 men through superior tactics and the use of artillery during a rainstorm, securing British interests in Bengal and laying the foundation for British rule in India.

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    The Battle of Plassey in 1757 was a significant victory for the British East India Company over the much larger force of the Bengal Nawab and French allies under Robert Clive's leadership. This victory allowed the British to replace the Nawab of Bengal with a more compliant ruler, Mir Jafar, after conspiring with discontented generals. On June 23rd at the village of Plassey, Clive's army of 2,000 Indian sepoys and 600 British troops defeated the Nawab's army of 40,000 men through superior tactics and the use of artillery during a rainstorm, securing British interests in Bengal and laying the foundation for British rule in India.

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    Battle of Plassey – 1857

    The Battle of Plassey was a significant victory that the British East India Company won over a
    much larger force of the Bengal Nawab and French allies on 23 June 1757 under Robert
    Clive’s leadership. This was a crucial event in the history of India. the British victory under
    Robert Clive at Plassey in Bengal was a crucial event in the history of India. The young
    Nawab of Bengal, Siraj-ad-Daula, had taken Calcutta from the East India Company with a
    huge army in June 1756, when the notorious Black Hole episode occurred. It was not until
    August that the news reached the Company in Madras and not until October that Clive, now
    32 years-old, left for Calcutta at the head of a mixed European-Indian force of some 2,500
    men. He drove Siraj’s army out early in January 1757.
    Clive decided that the best way to secure the Company’s interests in Bengal was to replace
    Siraj with a new and more pliant nawab. He found a candidate in a discontented elderly
    general named Mir Jafar. After complicated conspiratorial discussions and the promise of
    enormous bribes to all concerned, a secret agreement was smuggled into the women’s
    quarters of Mir Jafar’s house, which was being watched by Siraj’s spies, and Mir Jafar signed
    it. Siraj knew or suspected there was a conspiracy against him, despite Clive’s earnest
    protestations to the contrary, and moved south to Plassey. On 13 June, Clive moved north
    with some 2,000 Indian sepoys and 600 British infantry of the Thirty-Ninth of Foot plus close
    to 200 artillerymen with ten field pieces and two small howitzers. Ambiguous messages
    were coming in from Mir Jafar and Clive was moving into a dangerous situation against
    heavy odds. He seems to have had a crisis of confidence and summoned his officers to a
    council of war on 21 June. The majority, including Clive, voted against action. At that point,
    according to his friend Robert Orme, Clive retired into a grove of trees where he stayed for
    an hour in meditation. On his return he gave orders for the army to move on to Plassey.

    The confrontation came on a cloudy morning north of the village of Plassey on the bank of
    the Hughli river. Clive’s army was drawn up in three divisions, as was the Nawab’s army of
    perhaps 40,000 men with its war-elephants and more than 50 cannons. One division was
    commanded by Mir Jafar. After an opening cannonade, a crash of thunder at noon heralded
    a torrential downpour of rain that lasted half an hour. The British artillerymen quickly
    covered their cannon and ammunition with tarpaulins, but the enemy failed to do the same
    and their artillery was put out of action, so that when the Nawab’s army moved forward,
    assuming that Clive’s cannon was also out of action, it was met with a withering storm of
    fire. The enemy withdrew and Siraj, who distrusted his generals and had already been
    warned of impending defeat by his astrologer (who had possibly been bribed), lost his nerve
    when Mir Jafar advised retreat. When Clive’s army attacked again, Siraj fled on a fast camel.
    His demoralized army followed suit and when the British entered the enemy camp at about
    5pm, they found it abandoned.

    According to Clive, he lost 18 men, while he estimated the nawab’s dead as around 500.
    Siraj-ad-daula was killed by his own people and Mir Jafar replaced him. Clive, who was now
    effectively master of Bengal, skilfully bolstered Mir Jafar’s apparent authority while keeping
    him on leading strings. The skirmish at Plassey was critical to the East India Company’s
    triumph over its French rivals and, in the longer term, to the establishment of British rule in
    India. 

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