Tell about Battle of Plassey ?

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An infamous incident which was prelude to the Battle of Plassey is amazingly believed to have inspired the term Black Hole used in astrophysics.

Nawab of Bengal, Siraj ud-Daulah seized the fort St. Williams in an effort to stop interference of British East India Company.

All the captured soldiers, civilians and Anglo-Indian war prisoners were held in a very small dark dungeon which was not even meant to accommodate one percent of them.

There was no ventilation, no window, no source of light inside that hole. All the inmates suffered from suffocation and anxiety. Majority of them collapsed and died the next morning!

The Battle of Plassey was a major battle that took place on 23 June 1757 at Palashi, Bengal. It was an important British East India Company victory over the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies.

It let the British East India Company take control of this part of the Indian subcontinent. Their area of control grew over a large part of the Indies in the next hundred years.

The battle took place at Palashi, Bengal on the river banks of the Bhagirathi River. The fighting took place about 150 kilometres (93 mi) north of Calcutta.

This was near Murshidabad which was the capital of Bengal at the time. Plassey is the anglicised version of Palashi.

The battle was between Siraj ud-Daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal, and the British East India Company.

The battle took place after the attack and plunder of Calcutta by Siraj-ud-daulah and the Black Hole tragedy (Sir William Meredith, during the Parliamentary inquiry into Robert Clive's actions in India, vindicated Siraj ud-Daulah of any charges surrounding the Black Hole incident) .

The troubles between Siraj-ud-daulah and the British led to the Battle of Plassey.

The "trouble" was that the British strengthened the fortification around the Fort William without any intimation and approval; secondly, they grossly abused the trade privileges granted to them by the Mughal rulers, which caused heavy loss of customs duties for the government; and thirdly, that they gave shelter to some of his officers, for example Krishnadas, son of Rajballav, who fled Dhaka after misappropriating government funds.

Hence, when the East India Company started further enhancement of military preparedness at Fort William in Calcutta, Siraj asked them to stop.

The Company did not heed his directives, so Siraj-ud Daulah retaliated and captured Kolkata (Shortly renamed as Alinagar) from the British in June 1756.The Nawab gathered his forces together and took Fort William.

The British sent more soldiers under Colonel Robert Clive and Admiral Charles Watson from Madras to Bengal. The British retook control of Calcutta.

Clive then took control of the French fort of Chandernagar. The battle was fought during the Seven Years' War (1756–63). The French East India Company sent a small group to fight against the British. Siraj-ud-Daulah had more soldiers and chose to fight at Plassey.

The British were worried about having fewer soldiers. They formed a conspiracy with Siraj-ud-Daulah's demoted army leader Mir Jafar as well as others such as Yar Lutuf Khan and Rai Durlabh.

Mir Jafar, Rai Durlabh and Yar Lutuf Khan brought their soldiers near Plassey but did not actually join the battle.

Siraj-ud-Daulah's army was beaten by about 3,000 soldiers of Col. Robert Clive, and Siraj-ud-daulah fled from the battlefield.

This is thought to be one of the most important battles for the control of the Indian subcontinent by the colonial powers.

The British now had influence over the Nawab. They also got a lot of revenue from trade.

The British used this revenue to increase their military power. They pushed the other European colonial powers such as the Dutch and the French out of South Asia. This was a sign of the expansion the British Empire in Asia.

The Battle of Plassey occurred on 23rd June 1757 between the British and the Indians in Bengal. It took place in Palashi which was a small village between Calcutta and Murshidabad.

This battle is regarded as one of the most decisive wars in India because it eventually sealed the rule of British East India Company in Bengal and the defeat of Indian troupes against colonialism in this region.