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|partof= [[:Category:3rd Carnatic War|3rd Carnatic War]]<br>[[Seven Years War]]
|date= 23 June 1757
|location= [[PalashiPlassey]], [[West Bengal]]
|presidency= Bengal
|co-ordinates= [http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=23.774666,88.292284&z=13&t=h&hl=en 23.774666°N 88.292284°E]
|territory=[[Bengal]] annexed by British East India Company
|combatant1=[[East India Company]]
|combatant2= [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siraj_ud-Daulah Siraj Ud Daulah]] ([[Nawab of Bengal]]),<br>[[French East India Company|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_East_India_Company La Compagnie des Indes Orientales]]
|commander1=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Clive Col Robert Clive]
|commander2= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_Jafar Mir Jafar Ali Khan]<br>[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinfray M. Sinfray]]<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siraj_Ud_Daulah Siraj-ud-Daula]|strength1= 2,200 European soldiers,<br>2,100 Indian [[sepoy]]<br>100 [[gunner]]sgunners,<br>9 [[cannon]] (eight [[Ordnance QF 6 pounder|six-pounders]] and a [[howitzer]])|strength2= 5,000 soldiers,<br>53 [[cannon]]
|casualties1= 22 killed<br>(7 Europeans, 16 natives),<br>53 wounded<br>(13 Europeans and 36 natives)
|casualties2= 500 killed and wounded
