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BexGu posted:We need a history major in this thread to help flush out some of the unspoken backstory. Why was the Prince Regent mad at the East India Trading Company about India? What happened? That the crown was not in control/getting their cut? I'm not a history major, but the power of the EIC is a bit overstated when compared to the English Crown (and just in general) and in around fifteen years they'll be more or less nationalized for lack of a better term to use. The crown was constantly pissed off at the EIC because EIC would start fights and then beg the crown to send soldiers to take care of their mess to the point that the English government told the EIC that they had to start paying for the wars they start and also they had to pay to keep twenty thousand or so soldiers on retainer. Let's just say that the profits from conquest were not equally distributed, on top of that there's a lot of agitation for free trade which is very attractive from a taxation perspective. However, one thing the show kind of misses is that there's something a lot more important going on in Europe in 1814 that's occupying the Crown's attention. It's weird that people would be talking of the EIC as a behemoth and the threat the United States poses when you have Napoleon-motherfucking-Bonaparte at the tail end of stomping across Europe even though they're past the point where his illusion of invincibility has been shattered.
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Zythrst posted:Napoleon would currently be on Elba at the point this show is taking place. Oops, yeah, screwed up my dates by a bit, the War of the Sixth Coalition has just ended as soon as the show begins so Napoleon has been sent to Elba.
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