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The East India Company was formed by 218 knights and Queen Elizabeth I who granted its Royal Charter on December 31st 1600. However, it made little impression on the Dutch control of the spice trade and could not establish a lasting outpost in the East Indies in the early years. Yet it succeeded beyond measure in establishing military dominance and a political empire for [Britain] in the East.


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