Battle of Plassey

has description | a une description: On 23 June 1757, the armies of the Nawab (ruler) of Bengal, Siraj ud-daula, were defeated by those of the British East India Company in the battlefield of Palashi (anglicised as Plassey), 100 miles north of Kolkata (Calcutta). The victory was political rather than military, the British East India Company, led by Robert Clive and other officials, in collusion with prominent Indian merchants, had bribed factions of the royal family and the Bengal army to abandon the Nawab. As a result of this battle, the Nawab Siraj ud-daula was killed, and his relative, Mir Jafar was placed on the throne of Bengal with British East India Company backing. Huge amounts of treasure were gained by the Company as well as its individual officers, especially Robert Clive.
has type | est de type: historical
carried out by | réalisée par: British East India Company
took place on or within | a eu lieu le ou dans l'intervalle de temps: 23 June 1757
had duration | a duré: 1 day
moved from | a retiré de: Palashi (Plassey); India

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia; National Army Museum; National Portrait Gallery; Kaushik Roy, "Battle of Plassey, 1757," In Oxford Bibliographies: Military History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023); Jon Wilson, India Conquered: Britain's Raj and the Chaos of Empire (London, Simon & Schuster, 2016); Alison Smith, David Blayney Brown, and Carol Jacobi, eds., Artist and Empire: Facing Britain's Imperial Past (London: Tate Publishing, 2015), p. 88.

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1860, Statue of Robert Clive unveiled at Shrewsbury

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Mir Syed Jafar Ali Khan Bahadur
Siraj ud-daula

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