William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and the growth and division of the British Empire, 1708-1778; . ;tvfees^ MAP OF iiiiiii mmm m amim^ 1750-1760 )mMONTCALM and WOLFE BY FRAXCIS PaRKMAN .. 1761] Pittas War Ministry. 117 the squadron of four sail of the line. Clive quicklysubdued the Nabob, Surajah Dowlah, and in March,1757, he captured the important French settlementof Chandernagore near Calcutta. Then followed thefamous conspiracy with Meer Jafifier against the Na-bob, and the victory of Plassey (June 23, 1757)which made the East India Company virtually sov-ereign in Bengal. The brief camp
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and the growth and division of the British Empire, 1708-1778; . ;tvfees^ MAP OF iiiiiii mmm m amim^ 1750-1760 )mMONTCALM and WOLFE BY FRAXCIS PaRKMAN .. 1761] Pittas War Ministry. 117 the squadron of four sail of the line. Clive quicklysubdued the Nabob, Surajah Dowlah, and in March,1757, he captured the important French settlementof Chandernagore near Calcutta. Then followed thefamous conspiracy with Meer Jafifier against the Na-bob, and the victory of Plassey (June 23, 1757)which made the East India Company virtually sov-ereign in Bengal. The brief campaign had made theEngland of Clive a greater power in India than theFrance of Dupleix had ever been. The Continental campaign in the earlier part of1757 pointed to the early success of the coalitionagainst Frederick. The situation of Prussia wasalarming. Two Austrian armies under Browne andDaun threatened Silesia, the Russian force underApraxin was preparing to attack East Prussia, whilebefore the end of March two French armies number-ing together one hundred thousand crossed theRhine and marched towards Hanover. Frederickdetermined to attack the Austrians himself, and leftthe defence
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