Robert Clive
British military officer and East India Company official (1725-1774)
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He turned a trading company into the foundation of an empire. Robert Clive won a single battle in 1757 that handed Bengal — India's richest state — to the British East India Company, blocking French ambitions and beginning 190 years of colonial rule.
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Robert Clive arrived in India in 1744 as an office clerk for the East India Company. Swept into combat during the fall of Madras, he joined the company's private army and rose quickly through its ranks. In 1751 he improvised a military campaign that let the EIC adopt the French tactic of ruling through puppets. Hired back in 1755, he overthrew Bengal's ruler and secured the province by winning the Battle of Plassey in 1757, earning himself a guaranteed income of £90,000 a year. He left India in 1767 with a fortune worth nearly £60 million in today's money, which he used to buy an Irish barony…
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