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Hace 1 día · The English East India Company flag changed over time, with a canton based on the flag of the contemporary Kingdom, and a field of 9-to-13 alternating red and white stripes. From 1600, the canton consisted of a St George's Cross representing the Kingdom of England.
Hace 4 días · The East India Company flag in 1801, with its stripes and canton display, Public Domain. To maintain control over such vast territory, employed a standing army of more than 260,000 men, which was more than twice the size of the British army, and almost 75 times the size of the number of its civilian workers, which in 1830 was around 3500 people.
Hace 5 días · The English East India Company flag changed over time, with a canton based on the flag of the contemporary Kingdom, and a field of 9-to-13 alternating red and white stripes. From 1600, the canton consisted of a St George's Cross representing the Kingdom of England.
Hace 1 día · The East India Company (HEIC), a British monopoly with a Royal Charter, competed with other European companies to gain influence in Bengal. In 1757 and 1764, the Company defeated the Nawab of Bengal, who acted on Mughal sovereignty, at the Battle of Plassey and the Battle of Buxar, and Bengal came under British influence.
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 1 día · The war left the British, under the auspices of the British East India Company, in control of virtually all of present-day India south of the Sutlej River. The famed Nassak Diamond was looted by the company as part of the spoils of the war.
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.
