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Robert Clive
Major-General
Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive
, (29 September 1725 – 22 November 1774), also known as
Clive of India
,
Commander-in-Chief of British India
, was a
British
officer and
soldier of fortune
who established the military and political supremacy of the
East India Company
in
Bengal
. He is credited with securing India, and the wealth that followed, for the British crown. Together with
Warren Hastings
he was one of the key early figures in the creation of
British India
. He also sat for two boroughs as a
Tory
Member of Parliament
in Great Britain.
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