Plassey 1757: Clive of India's Finest Hour

by Peter Harrington and Peter Harrington

Book Overview

After relatively lowly beginnings as a writer in the East India Company, Robert Clive rose to be perhaps the most important single figure in the history of British involvement in India. At Plassey on 23 June 1757 Clive's 3,500 native and East India Company troops faced an army of 50,000 under the French supported nawab Siraj-ud-daula. Having succeeded in keeping his powder dry in a torrential rainstorm, Clive's guns were able to open a murderous fire...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855323524
• ISBN13: 9781855323520
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.2" x 9.7"