Atlas of Battles

commander, 6 engagements

Battles of Mir Jafar

Battles of Mir Jafar

Nawab of Bengal, 1691 to 1765

Mir Jafar is recorded as a commander at 6 placed engagements in the atlas between 1744 and 1759: 4 battles and 2 sieges, all in present-day India. Taken in date order, the sites lie 464 km apart end to end, 93 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Seven Years' War (1).

Battle of BedaraSiege of BankibazarSecond Battle of KatwaSiege of CalcuttaBattle of PlasseyBattle of ChinsurahSiege of BankibazarSecond Battle of KatwaSiege of CalcuttaBattle of PlasseyBattle of ChinsurahDhakaAsansolJamshedpurKhulnaDhanbadRanchiRajshahiBarddhamanKrishnanagarComilla200 km23.171N, 88.260E
6 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1744: 1 engagements1745: 1 engagements1756: 1 engagements1757: 1 engagements1759: 2 engagements2 in 175917441759
6 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Siege of Bankibazar, 1744Second Battle of Katwa, 1745Siege of Calcutta, 1756Battle of Plassey, 1757Battle of Bedara, 1759Battle of Chinsurah, 175917441759
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 1

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
22 September 1744Siege of BankibazarIchapore, IndiaBengal Subah victoryFall of Austrian Netherlands colony of...
1745Second Battle of KatwaIndia98 km NSee Aftermath
20 June 1756Siege of CalcuttaKolkata, India125 km SBengal Subah victory
23 June 1757Battle of PlasseyPalashi, India140 km NBritish victory; Mir Jafar becomes the Nawab of Bengal and...
1759Battle of BedaraIndia101 km SBritish victory
24 November 1759Battle of ChinsurahChinsurah, India0 km NBritish victory

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, Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.