Statue of Robert Clive - Whitehall (London)
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The bronze statue of Major-General Robert Clive, British officer and soldier of fortune British officer and soldier of fortune who established supremacy of the East India Company in Bengal, is located in London's King Charles Street.
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Date Posted: 02/03/2016
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The bronze statue of Major-General Robert Clive, British officer and soldier of fortune British officer and soldier of fortune who established supremacy of the East India Company in Bengal, is located in London's King Charles Street.
The bronze statue, made by John Tweed, was unveiled in 1912, outside Gwydyr House in Whitehall, and was moved to the present location in 1916. On the west face of the plinth are Clive's surname and the year of his birth and death (1725–1774). The remaining three sides have bronze reliefs depicting events in his life: the Siege of Arcot in 1751, eve of the Battle of Plassey in 1757, and the Treaty of Allahabad in 1765.
Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, KB FRS (29 September 1725 – 22 November 1774), also known as Clive of India, Commander-in-Chief of British India, 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.
Modern historians have criticised him for atrocities and pillaging of treasures which occurred in Bengal and India due to high taxation he instituted and for the forced cultivation of crops such as opium which resulted in famines...
[adapted and excerpted from Wikipedia]