Note 13 — HISTORICAL RECORD
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These distinctions having, in after years, been discontinued, His Majesty King William IV., on the 17th of November 1835, was graciously pleased to authorise their being resumed. A handsome silver-mounted drum-major’s cane (now in possession of the regiment) was presented to the Thirty-ninth by the Nabob of Arcot, with the following device and inscription thereon:—Device: an Elephant, with motto “Primus in Indis,” Plassey, 1757:—Inscription: Nabob of Bengal overturned by the 39th Regiment and the Company’s troops, 5th February 1757.
It will be observed that the date 5th February 1757, is not that of the battle of Plassey, but of the action fought near Calcutta, which is narrated at page 18. The battle of Plassey took place on the 23rd of June 1757.