He also had 50 field guns, a combination of , and pounders. Officers on loan from the French commanded this artillery. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Clive commanded the British force.
His army was about 3,strong, including 2, Indian sepoys infantry and about Europeans. Clive had only ten field guns and two small howitzers. The armies met on the banks of the Bhagirathi-Hooghly River, near the small village of Plassey Palashi about miles km north of Calcutta Kolkata. A heavy downpour of rain then interrupted proceedings. The British artillerymen quickly covered their cannon and ammunition with tarpaulins. The enemy failed to do the same and their artillery was put out of action.
They were met by a storm of fire and soon withdrew in disarray. Mir Jafar later killed Siraj and was appointed nawab in his place. But he became little more than a puppet ruler, forced to cede control of Bengal through the treaties he signed with the British.
After his victory at Plassey, Clive was appointed Governor of Bengal. This confirmed British military supremacy in the region and gave the Company a political stake in India.
Indian tax revenues were now used to buy Indian goods for export to Britain. The Company created a huge civil and military administration to collect the taxes and police its territories.
No longer purely a commercial organisation, it had become an imperial power. As part of this process Clive served as Commander-in-Chief Bengal, with the local rank of major-general.
In the years that followed, the British used their newly acquired revenues and military might to eject their European colonial rivals, the French and the Dutch, from the rest of India.
The victory at Plassey started a process that eventually resulted in British rule over the sub-continent. For a later generation of Britons, the victory at Plassey marked the birth of their Indian Empire. This was despite the fact that during his lifetime Clive had divided public opinion. A courageous, resourceful and ruthless military commander, Major-General Robert Clive helped secure India for Britain. But he was also seen as a greedy speculator who used his political and military influence to amass a fortune.
He defeated the Nawab at Plassey in and captured Calcutta. Hi there! Share Alamy images with your team and customers. All images All images. Live news. Search by image. Search for images Search for stock images, vectors and videos. The majority, including Clive, voted against action. At that point, according to his friend Robert Orme, Clive retired into a grove of trees where he stayed for an hour in meditation. On his return he gave orders for the army to move on to Plassey.
The confrontation came on a cloudy morning north of the village of Plassey on the bank of the Hughli river. One division was commanded by Mir Jafar. After an opening cannonade, a crash of thunder at noon heralded a torrential downpour of rain that lasted half an hour.
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