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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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