Atlas of Battles

commander, 9 engagements

Battles of Robert Clive

Battles of Robert Clive

British military officer and East India Company official (1725-1774)

Robert Clive is recorded as a commander at 9 placed engagements in the atlas between 1748 and 1757: 7 battles and 2 sieges, all in present-day India. Taken in date order, the sites lie 3,488 km apart end to end, 436 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Second Carnatic War (4), War of the Austrian Succession (1), Seven Years' War (1).

Siege of TrichinopolyBattle of ChingleputBattle of SeringhamBattle of VijaydurgSiege of CuddaloreSiege of ArcotBattle of ArneeBattle of ChandannagarBattle of PlasseySiege of CuddaloreSiege of ArcotBattle of ArneeBattle of ChandannagarBattle of PlasseyKarachiHyderabadAhmedabadPuneChattogramYangonSuratNagpurBhopalCoimbatore1000 km17.156N, 80.857E
9 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1748: 1 engagements1751: 3 engagements3 in 17511752: 1 engagements1753: 1 engagements1756: 1 engagements1757: 2 engagements17481757
9 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Siege of Cuddalore, 1748Siege of Trichinopoly, 1751Siege of Arcot, 1751Battle of Arnee, 1751Battle of Chingleput, 1752Battle of Seringham, 1753Battle of Vijaydurg, 1756Battle of Chandannagar, 1757Battle of Plassey, 175717481757
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 3

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
1748Siege of CuddaloreCuddalore, IndiaBritish victory
July 1751Siege of TrichinopolyTiruchirappalli, India154 km SWBritish-Maratha Allied Victory
23 September 1751Siege of ArcotArcot, India241 km NBritish-Wallajah-Maratha victory; Wallajah becomes the...
3 December 1751Battle of ArneeArani, India26 km SBritish-Maratha victory
1752Battle of ChingleputChengalpattu, India75 km EBritish–Arcot victory
12 April 1753Battle of SeringhamIndia296 km SWBritish–Maratha victory
February 1756Battle of VijaydurgIndia868 km NWAnglo-Peshwa victory
23 March 1757Battle of ChandannagarChandannagar, India1,722 km NEBritish victory
23 June 1757Battle of PlasseyPalashi, India106 km NBritish victory; Mir Jafar becomes the Nawab of Bengal and...

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Nathaniel Dance, (later Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, Bt) (died 1811), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.