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Old 27th June 2005, 12:30 AM   #4
Berkley
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Lawyers, want to comment?
Would be happy to - my fee is $300 per hour, minimum consultation time 2 hours, payment in advance, no PayPal or credit cards.

("Knowledge and time are a lawyer's only stock in trade." - Abraham Lincoln, a fairly successful Illinois criminal defense lawyer who went into politics later in life).

For free, I wonder how Mir Kasim's captured weapons came to be in the Kathmandu museum.

Battle of Buxar - In June 1763 under Major Adams British army defeated Mir Kasim the Nawab of Bengal. Though they with a smaller army against Mir Kasim, the English had victories at Katwah, Giria, Sooty, Udaynala and Monghyr. Mir Kasim fled to Patna and took help from Nawab Shujauddaulah and the Emperor Shah Alam II. But the English under the General Major Hector Munro at Buxar defeated the confederate army on 22 October, 1764. Mir Kasim fled again fled and died in 1777. After winning the Battle of Buxar, the British had earned the right to collect land revenue in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. This development set the foundations of British political rule in India. After the victory of the English in Buxar Robert Clive was appointed the governor and commander in chief of the English army in Bengal in 1765. He is claimed as the founder of the British political dominion in India. Robert Clive also brought reforms in the administration of the company and the organization of the army.
http://www.gatewayforindia.com/histo...h_history1.htm

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