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loyalty of most of the nawab's generals had been effectually undermined, though assistance, active or passive, could hardly be counted on. With this doubtful See also:

ADVANTAGE

advantage, Clive, with 'too See also:

EUROPEAN

European and 2100 native soldiers, and to See also:

field-pieces, took the field against the nawab, who had 50,000 men, 53 heavy guns, and some See also:

French See also:

ARTILLERY (the O. Fr. artiller, to equip with engines of war, probably comes from Late Lat. articulum, dim. of ars, art, cf. " engine " from ingenium, or of artus, joint)

artillery under M. de St Frais. Only the river Bhagirathi separated Clive's little force from the entrenched See also:

CAMP (from Lat. campus, field)

camp of the enemy, when the See also:

ENGLISH

English See also:

LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader, for once undecided, called a See also:

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council of See also:

war. Clive and the See also:

MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

majority were against fighting, See also:

Major See also:

Eyre See also:

COOTE, SIR EYRE (1726-1783)

Coote, of the 39th See also:

FOOT

Foot, and a few others for action. Coote's soldierly See also:

ADVICE (Fr. avis, from Lat. ad, to, and visum, viewed)

advice powerfully impressed Clive, and after deep See also:

CONSIDERATION (from Lat. considerare, to look at closely, examine, generally taken to be from con-, and the base seen in sidus, sideris, a star, the word being supposed to be originally an astrological or astronomical term)

consideration he altered his mind and issued orders to See also:

CROSS

cross the river. After a fatiguing See also:

march, the force bivouacked in a See also:

grove near Plassey See also:

early on the 23rd. The nawab's See also:

HOST

host came out of its lines and was See also:

DRAWN

drawn up in a huge semicircle almost enclosing the little force in the grove, and St Frais' gunners on the right wing opened See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire. Clive replied, and was soon subjected to the converging fire of 5o heavy guns. For See also:

HOURS, CANONICAL

hours the unequal fight was maintained, until a rainstorm stopped it. The English covered up their guns, but the enemy took no such precaution.

Mir Mudin, the only loyal See also:

general of the nawab's See also:

army, thinking that Clive's guns were as useless as his own, made a disastrous See also:

CAVALRY (Fr. cavalerie, Ger. Kavallerie or Reiterei, derived ultimately from late Lat. caballus, horse)

cavalry See also:

charge upon them; he lost his own See also:

LIFE

life, and his colleagues then had the See also:

GAME

game in their hands. Mir Jagar persuaded the nawab to retire into the entrenchments. St Frais stood fast until one of Clive's See also:

OFFICERS

officers, Major See also:

Kilpatrick, successfully drove him in. Clive followed up this success by cannonading the camp at See also:

close range. But the See also:

RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank and See also:

FILE

file of the native army, ignorant of the treachery of their leaders, made a furious sortie. For a time Clive was hard pressed, but his cool general-See also:

SHIP

ship held its own against the undisciplined valour of the enemy, and, noticing Mir Jagar's See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division in his See also:

REAR

rear made no move against him, he led his troops straight against the See also:

WORKS

works. After a See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short resistance, made chiefly by St Frais, the whole camp See also:

fell. into his hands. At a cost of 23 killed and 49 wounded this See also:

day's See also:

WORK

work decided the See also:

FATE

fate of Bengal. The historic grove of mangoes, in which Clive encamped on the previous See also:

NIGHT

night, has been entirely washed away by changes in the course of the river; but other See also:

RELICS (Lat, reliquiae, the equivalent of the English " remains " in the sense of a dead body)

relics of the day remain, and a See also:

MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument has recently been erected.

End of Article: PLASSEY (Palasi)

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