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Plassey

noun
1.
The victory in 1757 by the British under Clive over Siraj-ud-daula that established British supremacy over Bengal.  Synonym: battle of Plassey.



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Baron Clive of Plassey


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... Calcutta, and for miles around, you can see it; and always when you see it you think of Ochterlony. And so there is not an hour in the day that you do not think of Ochterlony and wonder who he was. It is good that Clive cannot come back, for he would think it was for Plassey; and then that great spirit would be wounded when the revelation came that it was not. Clive would find out that it was for Ochterlony; and he would think Ochterlony was a battle. And he would think it was a great one, too, and he would say, "With three thousand I whipped sixty thousand ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
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Words linked to "Plassey" :   Bharat, pitched battle, Baron Clive of Plassey, India, Republic of India


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