The Rise of the British
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- In 1600 The East India Company was declared by Queen Elizabeth 1 , granting it the sole right to trade in the East .
- I declare the English East India Company
- the company’s first sea vessel set sail under Captain John Lancaster. They reached the Cape of Good Hope, Nicobars, Aceh, and Bantam. They returned with 467,000 kilos of pepper
- Thank You, Captain!
- Good job gentlemen will be arriving to the mainland to export this pepper.
- Raja of Chandragiri permitted the British to make an outpost in Madras
- Sirajuddaulah the nawab of Bengal refused to grant large tributes of the companies right to trade and stopped them from fortifying their factory .
- Your demands are very stupid and will not be considered and stop fortification immediately
- Mir Jafar - commander of the Bengal Armed Forces conspired with the British offering them trading rights. He became the Nawab of Bengal after defeating Sirajuddaulah .
- The British won the Battle of Plassey and this gave the British the freedom of doing anything in Bengal as they had a puppet nawab
- Yes, We have won the war! We have expanded our territory!
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