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• The English East India Company was incorporated in 1600 and by the end of the century had trading stations at Madras, Bombay and Calcutta.
• There were also English settlements on the African coast in the Gambia and on the Gold Coast.
• Settlement in North America began with the founding of Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 and the Pilgrim Fathers in Massachusetts in 1620. Settlements followed in the Hudson Bay area, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and along the eastern coast.
• In the Caribbean the islands of the Bahamas, St Lucia and Barbados were English colonies in addition to Guiana.
THE EAST INDIA COMPANY AND THE SEPOY REBELLION
1. Which countries started a war in India in the 1750s and whowon the control of India?
2. Who was Robert Clive?3. How the East India Company make life better for some
Indians?4. Why did the East Indian Company have their own army?5. Who were the Sepoys?6. Why did the Sepoys rebelled against the East Indian
Company?7. What happened with the East India Company?8. Who Began to rule India in 1858?