A short history of England . ay, that of Chandernagore, and thenabob, in his anger with the English, turned to the French,offering them his special favor and protection. When the SevenYears War broke out in 1756 the peace between England andFrance in India, but poorly kept at best, was broken. Clivesecured as reinforcements a regiment of royal troops and attackedand destroyed Chandernagore. 514. Plassey and Wandewash.—This brought Clive and theEnglish again into a contest with Surajah Dowlah. In the won-derful battle of Plassey in 1757 Clive, with a little army consistingof nine hundred Englis
A short history of England . ay, that of Chandernagore, and thenabob, in his anger with the English, turned to the French,offering them his special favor and protection. When the SevenYears War broke out in 1756 the peace between England andFrance in India, but poorly kept at best, was broken. Clivesecured as reinforcements a regiment of royal troops and attackedand destroyed Chandernagore. 514. Plassey and Wandewash.—This brought Clive and theEnglish again into a contest with Surajah Dowlah. In the won-derful battle of Plassey in 1757 Clive, with a little army consistingof nine hundred English soldiers and about twenty-one hundredsepoys, defeated the nabobs army of more than thirty thousandmen. The superiority of European discipline, equipment, andleadership over vastly greater numbers of native troops was con-clusively shown. Clive had plotted with one of the nabobs generals before thebattle, promising to reward his treachery with the throne of Ben-gal. This was carried out; the old nabob was deposed and soon. o FOUNDATION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 571 afterwards put to death, and the newly enthroned prince in grati-tude gave to the English a great sum of money and extensivepower over all that part of Bengal surrounding Calcutta. Althoughpeace was established with this prince, Clive pressed on far inlandand near Patna defeated Shah Allum, the Great Mogul was appointed by the company governor general of theBritish possessions in Bengal, where he exercised almost sovereignpowers. While these things were taking place in Bengal the old strugglebetween the French and English in the south of India was renewedand fought to a conclusion. When the war in Europe broke outa new French commander in chief named Lally was sent to Indiato follow in the footsteps of Dupleix. The natives had small partin the hard struggles which followed between French and Eng-lish. After many contests a decisive battle was fought in 1760at Wandewash, in which Colonel Coote, an officer
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