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The Battle of Buxar 1764: Britain's Forgotten Conquest of Bengal
Fresh off their victory at Plassey in 1757, the British East India Company thought they had Bengal under control. But when Mir Jafar's puppet regime crumbled and a young Mughal emperor tried to reassert imperial authority, the stage was set for a second, far more decisive confrontation. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the Battle of Buxar in 1764 — a clash that pitted the Company's disciplined sepoys against the combined armies of the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II, the Nawab of Awadh Shuja-ud-Daula, and the ousted Nawab of Bengal Mir Qasim. They trace how Mir Qasim's…
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