By the beginning of the 19th century, the East India Company had become, as one of its directors admitted, “an empire within an empire”, with the power to make war or peace anywhere in the east.
19世紀初,英國東印度公司(East India Company,以下簡稱東印度公司)已如其一位董事承認的那樣,成爲「帝國中的帝國」,擁有在東方任何地方製造戰爭或和平的力量。
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