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Lord Clive meeting with Mir Jafar after the Battle of Plassey, oil on canvas (Francis Hayman, c. 1762)Date23 June 1757LocationPalashi, Bengal Subah
Coordinates: 23.80°N 88.25°EResultDecisive British victoryTerritorial
changesBengal annexed by the East India CompanyBelligerents Great Britain East India CompanyMughal EmpirePrincipality of Bengal FranceCommanders and leaders Colonel Robert CliveMajor KilpatrickMajor GrantMajor Eyre CooteCaptain GauppNawab Siraj ud-DaulahDiwan MohanlalMir Madan †Mir Jafar Ali Khan(defector)Yar Lutuf Khan (defector)Rai Durlabh (defector) Monsieur SinfrayStrengthEast India Company:750 English European soldiers100 Topasses2,100 Indian sepoys100 gunners50 sailors8 cannon (six 6-poundersand 2 howitzers)defectors:15,000 cavalry of Mir Jafar35,000 infantryMughal Empire:7,000 infantry5,000 cavalry of Siraj ud-Daulah35,000 infantry (defected)15,000 cavalry of Mir Jafar (defected)53 field pieces (mostly 32, 24 and 18-pounders)France:50 artillerymen (6 field pieces)Casualties and losses22 killed50 wounded500 killed and woundedshowvteThird Carnatic War
The Battle of Plassey was a decisive victory of the British East India Company over the Nawab of Bengal and his French[1] allies on 23 June 1757. The battle consolidated the Company's presence in Bengal, which later expanded to cover much of India over the next hundred years.
The battle took place at Palashi (Anglicised version: Plassey) on the banks of the Bhagirathi River, about 150 kilometres (93 mi) north of Calcutta and south of Murshidabad, then capital of Bengal (now in Nadia district in West Bengal). The belligerents were the Nawab Sirajuddaulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal, and the British East India Company. Siraj-ud-daulah had become the Nawab of Bengal the year before, and he ordered the English to stop the extension of their fortification. Robert Clive bribed Mir Jafar, the commander in chief of the Nawab's army, and also promised him to make him Nawab of Bengal. He defeated the Nawab at Plassey in 1757 and captured Calcutta.[2]