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Last modified on Tue 29 Jun 2021 12.50 EDT The British empire in India was in effect established at the Battle of Plassey on 23 June 1757. The battle was swift, beginning at dawn and ending close to sunset. It was a normal monsoon day, with occasional rain in the mango groves at the town of Plassey, which is between Calcutta, where the British were based, and Murshidabad, the capital of the kingdom of Bengal. It was in those mango groves that the British forces faced the Nawab Siraj-ud-Doula’s army and convincingly defeated it. British rule ended nearly 200 years later with Jawaharlal Nehru...

After the Memorial Day weekend storm, bride-to-be turns to 'Talk' group to save the wedding she had been planning for two years in Port Clinton.

America's first conflict in the Asian peninsula was in 1871. 

Ernest Mae Miller, known most often as Ernie, was born on February 7, 1927 in Austin, Texas and i

The Beacon BY PHIL WHEELER Two pyramidal monuments of boulders stand two miles apart at either end of what is known as the De Lery Portage of 1754. One monument marks the site of Old Fort Sandoski (Sandusky), and faces Sandusky Bay, opposite the mouth of the Sandusky River. The other, the Harrison Perry Embarkation monument, overlooks Lake Erie near the old mouth of the Portage River at the Eastern end portion of Waterworks Park. These markers, together with the short land portage connecting them, teem with history as absorbing as any in this country. The Harrison Perry Embarkation monument n...