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And Plassey Holiday Park in Wrexham said their tents, lodges and caravan sites were fully booked within hours.

The previous evening, I had watched her be the chief guest at a college cricket match and address a gathering at the local market in Plassey.

In the six decades since its victory at the Battle of Plassey in 1757, the East India Company had emerged as the ruler of vast swaths of the subcontinent.

Lord Clive, eight months later, succeeded in recapturing Calcutta, and after the subsequently famous battle of Plassey, the possessions of the East India Company greatly extended.

The men above whose heads his genius and daring had carried him, and the Little Englanders of that day, both hated the hero of Plassey with a lurid and vitriolic vehemence.