Multiple choice

In the Battle of Buxar, Mir Qasim was defeated by the English under the command of:

  1. Major Hume

  2. Clive

  3. Sir Eyre Coote

  4. Major Munro
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Explanation

The Battle of Buxar (1764) was fought between the British East India Company forces commanded by Major Hector Munro and the combined armies of Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Awadh, and the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II. Munro's decisive victory established British supremacy in Bengal. Clive had returned to England earlier, and neither Hume nor Coote commanded at Buxar.

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