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世纪初,英国东印度公司(East India Company,以下简称东印度公司)已如其一位董事承认的那样,成为“帝国中的帝国”,拥有在东方任何地方制造战争或和平的力量。
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