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Anglo-Mughal War
Anglo-Mughal War (1686–1690) was a war fought between Mughal Empire and British East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South A ... in the late 17th century. Anglo-Mughal War may also refer to: * Bengal War (1757–1765) * Carnatic Wars (1744–1763) * Indian rebellion (1857) See also * Battle of Delhi (1803), Mughals lose all possessions beyond Saharanpur (Old Delhi) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglo-Mughal War (1686–1690)
Anglo-Mughal War (1686–1690) was a war fought between Mughal Empire and British East India Company in the late 17th century. Anglo-Mughal War may also refer to: *Bengal War (1757–1765) *Carnatic Wars (1744–1763) *Indian Rebellion of 1857, Indian rebellion (1857) See also *Battle of Delhi (1803), Mughals lose all possessions beyond Saharanpur (Old Delhi) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mughal Empire
The Mughal Empire was an Early modern period, early modern empire in South Asia. At its peak, the empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus River Basin in the west, northern Afghanistan in the northwest, and Kashmir in the north, to the highlands of present-day Assam and Bangladesh in the east, and the uplands of the Deccan Plateau in South India.. Quote: "The realm so defined and governed was a vast territory of some , ranging from the frontier with Central Asia in northern Afghanistan to the northern uplands of the Deccan plateau, and from the Indus basin on the west to the Assamese highlands in the east." The Mughal Empire is conventionally said to have been founded in 1526 by Babur, a Tribal chief, chieftain from what is today Uzbekistan, who employed aid from the neighboring Safavid Iran, Safavid and Ottoman Empires Quote: "Babur then adroitly gave the Ottomans his promise not to attack them in return for their military aid, which he received in the form of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South Asia and Southeast Asia), and later with East Asia. The company gained Company rule in India, control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent and British Hong Kong, Hong Kong. At its peak, the company was the largest corporation in the world by various measures and had its own armed forces in the form of the company's three presidency armies, totalling about 260,000 soldiers, twice the size of the British Army at certain times. Originally Chartered company, chartered as the "Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East-Indies," the company rose to account for half of the world's trade during the mid-1700s and early 1800s, particularly in basic commodities including cotton, silk, indigo dye, sugar, salt, spices, Potass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengal War
The Bengal War, also called the second Anglo-Mughal war, was a war between a coalition consisting of the Mughal Empire, the Awadh Subah and the Bengal Subah against the British East India Company (EIC) from 1763 and to 1765, ending with a British victory and the signing of the Treaty of Allahabad on August 16th, 1765. Background Under the Mughal Empire, Bengal which was variously described as the 'Paradise of Nations', had been one of its wealthiest and most prosperous ''subahs'' (provinces), it alone accounting for 40% of all Dutch exports from Asia and was a major exporter of silk and cotton textiles, steel, saltpeter, and agricultural and industrial produce. The British East India Company (EIC) had been trading in the East Indies ever since the early 17th century, however following Amboyna massacre in 1623 which saw an attack on one of their factories in the spice islands by the Dutch, they were compelled to abandon their efforts in South-east Asia and shift their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Rebellion Of 1857
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against Company rule in India, the rule of the East India Company, British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the The Crown, British Crown. The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the form of a mutiny of sepoys of the company's army in the garrison town of Meerut, northeast of Delhi. It then erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions chiefly in the Ganges Basin, upper Gangetic plain and central India, though incidents of revolt also occurred farther north and east. The rebellion posed a military threat to British power in that region, and was contained only with the rebels' defeat in Gwalior on 20 June 1858., , and On 1 November 1858, the British granted amnesty to all rebels not involved in murder, though they did not declare the hostilities to have formally ended until 8 July 1859. The Names of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, name of the revolt is contested, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
