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Queen Anne 1 granted a royal charter to some London merchants to have sole ownership of trade with the East Indies
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the British East India Company established its first factory post in Masulipatnam on the Andhra Coast
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The EIC was on a mission to expand faster and more efficiently
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EIC to wage war on the states in the Indian region including Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab (governor) of Bengal during the Battle of Plassey