British and French traders, especially to Sarkar Saran and the adjoining areas. After a series of wars and diplomatic manoeuvres, the East India Company triumphed over its geopolitical rivals.

The British territory ... during the Napoleonic wars and used it to track Japan’s navy during World War II. The US presence at Diego Garcia dates back to the 1960s, when India requested American ...

Who Do You Think You Are? returns to BBC One with a stacked cast, including Hollywood star Andrew Garfield. The Spider-Man star, more recently seen in tearjerker We Live In Time, will feature on the ...

The British East India Company introduced commercial tea production ... especially during the Crusades and the Hundred Years’ War. King Edward III also had a major influence on Saint George ...

Simply appending ".com" to a company's name could ... but to shore up the struggling British pound, still burdened by the inflation and debts of World War I. The 1960s saw a different form of ...

Jersey, the largest, is the only place in the British Isles to still use £1 notes. It’s strewn with remnants of Napoleonic ... s settlement by the East India Company in 1659, add to the bygone ...

Lamb, born on February 10, left school at 14, with a severe stutter; at 17, he became a clerk in the East India Company, where he remained ... a staple of British reading until the Second World War, ...

Introduction Throughout human history, certain individuals have left an indelible mark on the world, shaping the course of ...

How the bold, hopeful visions of self-determination in Britain’s eastern colonies curdled into a more militant nationalism by the end of the second world war.

a venerable but little-known British bank stands ready to back the UK's Armed Forces – as it has done since the Napoleonic wars. Holt's Military Banking, based in Farnborough, Hampshire ...