Enlightenment · South Asia · War
1764
Battle of Buxar
October 22, 1764
On a plain in Bihar, 7,000 Company troops under Hector Munro defeated the combined armies of Mughal emperor Shah Alam II, Awadh's nawab, and Bengal's Mir Qasim - some 40,000 men. Plassey had been a bribe; Buxar was a real battle. It confirmed British military dominance over northern India. The Treaty of Allahabad that followed gave the Company revenue rights over Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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