The East India Company
Fire the "The East India Company" event in Europa Universalis IV with the console command event flavor_eng.9145.
The East India Company
Fire this event with the event command and the event ID flavor_eng.9145.
What happens
Created two years before its Dutch equivalent, the English East India Company had a difficult start. Its first trading posts in the Moluccas (Amboina) and Indonesia were soon overwhelmed and closed by the Dutch and activity concentrated to India (Madras, Bombay, Calcutta). It is there that she would know its greatest success, from a small trading ventures of harbor factories to the large Indian Empire build by Warren Hastings and Robert Clive (from 1757 onwards) that would control most of the Indian subcontinent. The company would outlast all its competitors and would only be taken over by the British government in 1867, in the wake of the great Sepoy revolt of 1857.
Player choices
When this event fires, The East India Company presents these options:
- We will exploit this!