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Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Clive's victory Plassey in 1757 enabled the East India Company established its rule over large areas of India. Clive here recounts some of the consequences in a speech to the House of Commons.
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I gave you an account of the taking of Chandernagore in my last letter; the subject of this address is an event of much higher importance, no less than the entire overthrow ... About this time some of his principal officers made overtures to us for dethroning him. ... As we had reason to believe this disaffection pretty general,
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Few of our list of Great Salopians have changed the world in the way that Robert Clive did. Yet in his early life he seemed more likely to be heading for the hangman's noose than fame and fortune. ... Robert Clive was one of the most influential Salopians. He was involved in key battles that undoubtedly changed the course...
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Young Clive was a difficult boy and was sent to several schools, including the Merchant Taylors' School in London, without much visible profit. In 1743, when 18, he was sent to Madras in the service of the English East India Company.
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English: Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey, KB (29 September 1725–22 November 1774), also known as Clive of India, was a British soldier who established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Southern India and Benga...
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