Enlightenment · South Asia · War
1751
Clive Seizes Arcot
1751
A depressive young East India Company clerk named Robert Clive, bored with ledgers, marched 500 men through monsoon rain and took the capital of the Carnatic. He held it for fifty days against 10,000 besiegers. London suddenly noticed that its trading company had an army, and that army had a genius.
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Also in 1751 (4 other events on record)
- First Volume of Diderot's Encyclopédie · Europe · Culture
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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