StNicholas [serial] . own as John Company,—the East India Company,—an association ofEnglish merchants that, beginning in a smallway with certain trading privileges, graduallyincreased the territory it controlled until itbecame the most powerful body in India. You will read, some day, the wonderful featsof arms performed by Clive, Lawrence, Camp-bell, Outram, Dalhousie, and others as brave;from the battle of Plassey—in which youngClive, with a force of thirty-two hundred, de-feated fifty thousand Bengalese, and establishedthe power of the English in India—to the vic-tories of Bobs Bahadur, Gene
StNicholas [serial] . own as John Company,—the East India Company,—an association ofEnglish merchants that, beginning in a smallway with certain trading privileges, graduallyincreased the territory it controlled until itbecame the most powerful body in India. You will read, some day, the wonderful featsof arms performed by Clive, Lawrence, Camp-bell, Outram, Dalhousie, and others as brave;from the battle of Plassey—in which youngClive, with a force of thirty-two hundred, de-feated fifty thousand Bengalese, and establishedthe power of the English in India—to the vic-tories of Bobs Bahadur, General LordRoberts, now commanding in South Africa. In 1858 the authority of the East IndiaCompany was transferred to the crown, andin 1877 Queen Victoria was declared Empressof India. And it all began with the attemptof the Dutch merchants to charge the Englishtoo much for a pound of pepper. So remember never to charge too much forpepper, or otherwise you may perhaps lose anempire, as the Dutch did. Tudor
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