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Plassey (Palashi)

Village in Bengal where the Company's army and the Nawab of Bengal's army met in 1757.

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In Plassey (Palashi)

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  • Robert Clive Scholarship & press 1

    Clive held the title Baron of Plassey.

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  1. Lord Clive (essay, Edinburgh Review, January 1840), Thomas Babington Macaulay (text via Frances Pritchett, Columbia University), 1840. Scholarship & press
    bitterly complained that he, the Baron of Plassey, had been treated like a sheep-stealer
  2. 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
    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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