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{{Battles_Infobox|partof= the [[Seven Years War]]|date= June 23, 1757|location= [[Palashi]], [[West Bengal]]|presidency= Bengal|co-ordinates= 19-20 84-45 |result= Decisive victory for [[British East India Company]]|territory=[[Bengal]] annexed by British East India Company|combatant1= [[British East India Company]]|combatant2= [[Siraj Ud Daulah]] ([[Nawab of Bengal]]),<br>[[French East India Company|La Compagnie des Indes Orientales]]|commander1= Colonel [[Robert Clive]]|commander2= [[Mir Jafar Ali Khan]], [[M. Sinfray]], Siraj-ud-Daula|strength1= 2,200 European soldiers,<br>2,100 Indian [[sepoy]]<br>100 [[gunner]]s,<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}}<noinclude>[[Category:Battles]]</noinclude> See also [[List of Battles & Actions in British India 1600-1900]] == Recommended Reading == "''Plassey''" by M Edwardes 1963 ASIN B0000CLQD6== External Links ==[http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_plassey.html History of War - Battle of PlasseyLocations] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Clive,_1st_Baron_Clive Robert Clive's Indian Wars 1740-63]
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