The two armies met near the village of Palashi, on the banks of the Bhagirathi River, in present-day West Bengal. Despite commanding an estimated 50,000 troops, his army was ineffective so the Nawab fled the battlefield and was later captured and executed.
Sir Stamford Raffles, who had been appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen in modern Indonesia, had identified Singapore as an ideal location for the British East India company due to its natural harbour and strategic position along the Straits of Malacca.
With the impressive Ganj-i-Sawai incapacitated, Every’s crew boarded the ship and looted the valuable cargo, which is estimated to have been worth hundreds of thousands of pounds at the time.
Formally titled “The Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies,” the East India Company was established to capitalise on the lucrative spice trade.
British prisoners of war were imprisoned in the ‘Black Hole of Calcutta’ after the Bengali army captured Fort William from the East India Company.
The Indian Mutiny, also known as the First War of Indian Independence, began in Meerut.
By the start of the 17th century merchants from the Dutch Republic had begun to undertake voyages to the ‘Spice Islands’ of the Indian Ocean.
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