Ontario High School History of England . , was reallyan independent sovereign. He found that the English,fearing an attack from the French, were strengthening theirfort at Calcutta, and when he demanded the reason, and didnot get an answer that satisfied him, he seized all theEnglish upon whom he could lay hands and gave a carelessorder that they should be confined in a certain prison-room. The room, as it happened,was only eighteen feet longand fourteen wide and theEnglish numbered one hun-dred and forty-five, of whomone was a woman. For along, sweltering day andnight they remained lockedin t
Ontario High School History of England . , was reallyan independent sovereign. He found that the English,fearing an attack from the French, were strengthening theirfort at Calcutta, and when he demanded the reason, and didnot get an answer that satisfied him, he seized all theEnglish upon whom he could lay hands and gave a carelessorder that they should be confined in a certain prison-room. The room, as it happened,was only eighteen feet longand fourteen wide and theEnglish numbered one hun-dred and forty-five, of whomone was a woman. For along, sweltering day andnight they remained lockedin this room. Tormented bysuffocation and thirst, manyof them died in raving mad-ness. When the door wasopened in the morning onlytwenty-three were foundalive. Victory of Plassey, 1757,and British control of Ben-gal.—When the terrible out-rage of the Black Hole of Cal-cutta occurred, Clive was at Madras, but hehastened to punishthe murderous deed. He soon retook Calcutta. But Suraj-ud-dowlah now menaced him with a great army, and in June,. Edward, Baron Hawke (1705-1781) THE HOUSE OP HANOVER 389 1757, Clive fought at Plassey the great battle which was todecide the fate of India. With but three thousand men, ofwhom less than a thousand were Europeans, Clive defeatedthe nabobs army of fifty-five thousand, a success madepossible by superior discipline and by the treachery of thenabobs chief lieutenant. This victory, and the death, soonafter, of Suraj-ud-dowlah, left Clive the real ruler of few years later the emperor at Delhi gave the East IndiaCompany the right to collect the taxes of Bengal, and inthis way a trading company came to rule a great province,more than twice as populous as England itself. The Frenchcould no longer rival the English. Even when Clive hadreturned to England in 1760, Eyre Coote was able to inflicta crushing defeat on the French at Wandewash. Pondi-cherry surrendered soon after. Dupleixs dream of a greatFrench Indian empire had ended in complete dis
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