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Clive’s military service with the Company dates from the French capture of Madras in September 1746 two years after his arrival in India. Following his first commission in 1747 as an ensign in the Company’s own forces, he served successively as a lieutenant and captain before being commissioned in 1755 as a lieutenant-colonel in the regular army. It was in this latter capacity that he completed his career in 1767 as commander-in-chief and Governor of Bengal.