• Queen Anne 1 granted a royal charter to some London merchants to have sole ownership of trade with the East Indies

  • the British East India Company established its first factory post in Masulipatnam on the Andhra Coast

  • The EIC was on a mission to expand faster and more efficiently

  • 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