Clive Wins Plassey: Britain Seizes Control of Bengal
Robert Clive's force of 3,000 defeated Siraj ud-Daulah's 50,000-strong army at Plassey, a victory secured less by combat than by Clive's secret deal with the Bengali commander Mir Jafar to switch sides during battle. The conquest handed the East India Company control of Bengal's treasury and tax revenues, financing two centuries of British imperial expansion across the subcontinent.
June 23, 1757
269 years ago
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