Event

Battle of Plassey

Battle in 1757 in which the East India Company's force, with Mir Jafar, defeated the Nawab of Bengal.

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East India Company 1757 its troops fought as principals, according to A. C. Lyall Scholarship & press 1
Robert Clive 1757 commanded the Company's force Scholarship & press 1

Mir Jafar joined the English in a compact to replace the Nawab Scholarship & press 1

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History of India, vol. 8, ch. 7: The Conquest of Bengal (A. C. Lyall), History of India, ed. A. V. W. Jackson (text via ibiblio), 1907. Scholarship & press
the first important occasion upon which the East India Company’s troops were openly arrayed, not as auxiliaries, but as principals, against a considerable native army commanded in person by the ruler of a great province.
Clive delivered his assault at one angle
entered into a compact to dethrone Siraj-ad-daulah, and to set up in his stead Mir Jafir, one of the principal conspirators
He then marched up the country against the Nawab, whom he found entrenched at Plassey with about fifteen thousand cavalry, thirty thousand foot, and forty pieces of cannon.

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