4: "Boston Harbor A Tea-Pot This Night:" The Boston Tea Party
History That Doesn't Suck
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The East India Company
The east india company, or e i c for short, is a power to be reckoned with. Robert clive has at a clear disadvantage in this artillery du but everything changes when ama i storm strikes and soaks the gunpowder. The british are better prepared, using coverings called tarpalas,. robert's men keep their artillery offer and they soon deliver a mortal wound to bengali commander mir mad. Thus, a 50 thousand strong bengali army thats suffered but a few hundred deaths. Loses to a force of three thousand in a single day. And mir jaffar will become bengali's new ruler and name, but he won
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