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Hace 1 día · The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia), and later with East Asia.
Hace 3 días · Sir James Lancaster was a merchant who commanded the first English vessel to reach the East Indies and who established the first English trading post in Southeast Asia. In 1588 Lancaster served under Sir Francis Drake as commander of the Edward Bonaventure against the Spanish Armada.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hace 5 días · In 1790-92 and 1799 the British East India Company waged wars with Mysore, an independent feudal state in South India. Its ruler Tippoo Saib had taken part in previous Mysore campaigns against the British and was a sworn enemy of the British colonialists.
Hace 5 días · The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region , initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia ), and later with East Asia .
Hace 2 días · Far from being an empire founded on ideas of imperial mission or colonial improvement, the East India Company’s late eighteenth-century regime was ‘an empire of constitutional restoration’ (p. 207), intent on justifying itself in the name of the subcontinent’s – supposed – political past.
Hace 2 días · Affairs of the East India Company: Minutes of evidence, 29 April 1830. Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 62, 1830. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, [n.d.]. This free content was digitised by double rekeying.
Hace 2 días · Official British trade was conducted through the auspices of the British East India Company, which held a royal charter for trade with the Far East. The East India Company gradually came to dominate Sino-European trade from its position in India and due to the strength of the Royal Navy .
