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The British who did the company's army against Sirajuddaulah at Plassey was ?


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Answered by umab4646
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Robert Clive

The Battle of Plassey was fought in north-eastern India on 23 June 1757. Troops of the British East India Company, led by Robert Clive, came up against the forces of Siraj-ud-Daulah, the last Nawab of Bengal, and his French allies.

Answered by guptapreeti051181
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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, under the leadership of Robert Clive which was possible due to the defection of Mir Jafar Ali Khan, who was Siraj-ud-Daulah's commander in chief. The battle helped the Company seize control of Bengal. Over the next hundred years, they seized control of the entire Indian subcontinent and Myanmar - and briefly Afghanistan.

Battle of Plassey

Part of the Seven Years' War

An oil-on-canvas painting depicting the meeting of Mir Jafar and Robert Clive after the Battle of Plassey by Francis Hayman

Clive meeting with Mir Jafar after the Battle of Plassey, oil on canvas (Francis Hayman, c. 1762)

Date 23 June 1757

Location

Palashi, Bengal Subah

23.80°N 88.25°E

Result British victory

Territorial

changes Bengal annexed by the British East India Company.

Belligerents

Great Britain

East India Company

Bengal Subah

Kingdom of France France

French East India Company

Commanders and leaders

Kingdom of Great Britain Colonel Robert Clive

Major Kilpatrick

Major Grant

Major Eyre Coote

Captain Gaupp

Capt. William Jennings

Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah Executed

Diwan Mohanlal

Mir Madan †

Mir Jafar Ali Khan (defector)

Yar Lutuf Khan (defector)

Rai Durlabh (defector)

Kingdom of France St. Frais

Strength

East India Company:

750 British European soldiers

100 Topasses

2,100 Indian sepoys

100 gunners

50 sailors

8 cannon (six 68-pounders and 2 howitzers)

defectors:

15,000 cavalry of Mir Jafar

35,000 infantry

Mughal Empire:

7,000 infantry

5,000 cavalry of Siraj ud-Daulah

35,000 infantry (defected)

15,000 cavalry of Mir Jafar (defected)

53 field pieces (mostly 32, 24 and 18-pounder pieces)

Kingdom of France France :

50 artillerymen (6 field pieces)

Casualties and losses

22 killed

50 wounded

500 killed and wounded

The battle took place at Palashi (Anglicised version: Plassey) on the banks of the Hooghly River, about 150 kilometres (93 mi) north of Calcutta (now Kolkata) and south of Murshidabad, then capital of Bengal (now in Nadia district in West Bengal). The belligerents were the Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah, 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. Clive defeated Siraj-ud-Daulah at Plassey in 1757 and captured Calcutta.[2]

The battle was preceded by an attack on British-controlled Calcutta by Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah and the Black Hole massacre. The British sent reinforcements under Colonel Robert Clive and Admiral Charles Watson from Madras to Bengal and recaptured Calcutta. Clive then seized the initiative to capture the French fort of Chandernagar.[3] Tensions and suspicions between Siraj-ud-daulah and the British culminated in the Battle of Plassey. The battle was waged during the Seven Years' War (1756–1763), and, in a mirror of their European rivalry, the French East India Company (La Compagnie des Indes Orientales)[1] sent a small contingent to fight against the British. Siraj-ud-Daulah had a numerically superior force and made his stand at Plassey. The British, worried about being outnumbered, formed a conspiracy with Siraj-ud-Daulah's demoted army chief Mir Jafar, along with others such as Yar Lutuf Khan, Jagat Seths (Mahtab Chand and Swarup Chand), Umichand and Rai Durlabh. Mir Jafar, Rai Durlabh and Yar Lutuf Khan thus assembled their troops near the battlefield but made no move to actually join the battle. Siraj-ud-Daulah's army with 50,000 soldiers, 40 cannons and 10 war elephants was defeated by 3,000 soldiers of Col. Robert Clive, owing to the flight of Siraj-ud-Daulah from the battlefield and the inactivity of the conspirators. The battle ended in 11 hours.

This is judged to be one of the pivotal battles in the control of Indian subcontinent by the colonial powers. The British now wielded enormous influence over the Nawab, Mir Jafar and consequently acquired significant concessions for previous losses and revenue from trade. The British further used this revenue to increase their military might and push the other European colonial powers such as the Dutch and the French out of South Asia, thus expanding the British Empire.

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