ship-burningFrom the 1790s to the 1850s, three dozen major merchant ships burned in India's important ports. Panic-stricken British shipowners, merchants and East India Company officials apprehended disruption of their intercontinental trade, so vital to the burgeoning British Empire. In all these ...
Founding of East India Company Soon after the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, London merchants presented a petition to Queen Elizabeth I for permission to sail to the Indian Ocean. Permission was granted and in 1591, three ships sailed from Torbay around the Cape of Good Hope to the ...
在一段时间内,这是可以接受的,但墨西哥独立战争,导致高质量的银币在世界范围内短缺。 The British East India Company which owned Bengal in India at the time, wanted to fix the trade deficit with Qing. They did this by growing opium in Bengal, which was considered a medicine in the British Empir...
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An incident of 1814 involving the flogging of one of the East India Company's Lascar seamen during his stay in a London boarding-house raised this question in an urgent way. Was the use of a 'customary' punishment by a serang {native officer} acceptable in the metropole, or was this a...
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The Tea Act was the final straw for many colonists — the Sons of Liberty organised a huge protest in which they boarded the ships carrying the East India Company’s tea, and threw £10,000 worth of tea into the sea in defiance. This was known as the Boston Tea Party and ...
When the East India Company lost its monopoly of the China trade (1833), it also lost its interest in Malaya. The settlements were transferred to the direct control of the governor-general of India in 1851. In 1867 they were made a crown colony under the Colonial Office in London. ...
in England, I am very unhappy about it”.1 She was interested in the Grosvenor specifically because as a passenger on board was her seven-year-old son Thomas whom she shared with husband Robert Chambers, a judge in service of the British East India Company that ruled India at the time. ...
The Townshend Acts (1767) also issued taxes on goods such as glass, lead, and tea. Those taxes were repealed in 1770 for all goods listed except for tea as a result of colonial boycotts and protests. Official Arms of the East India Company...