East_India_Company

context: Soon after the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, London merchants presented a petition to Queen Elizabeth I for permission to sail to the Indian Ocean. The permission was granted, and despite the defeat of the English Armada in 1589, on 10 April 1591 three ships sailed from Torbay around the Cape of Good Hope to the Arabian Sea on one of the earliest English overseas Indian expeditions. One of them, Edward Bonventure, then sailed around Cape Comorin and on to the Malay Peninsula and subsequently returned to England in 1594.
qas: answers: text: 1588
question: The Spanish Armada suffered a defeat in what year?

answers: text: 1589
question: What was the first year the London merchants were granted permission to sail the Indina Ocean?

answers: text: Queen Elizabeth I
question: Who did the London merchants petition to get permission to sail the Indian Ocean?

answers: text: three
question: how many ships sailed Torbay?

answers: text: Edward Bonventure
question: who returned to england after sailing around Cape Comorin?

answers: text: 1588
question:  in this paragraph the Spanish Armada suffered a defeat in what year?

answers: text: three
question: how many ships sailed  from Torbay?

context: This time they succeeded, and on 31 December 1600, the Queen granted a Royal Charter to "George, Earl of Cumberland, and 215 Knights, Aldermen, and Burgesses" under the name, Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading with the East Indies. For a period of fifteen years the charter awarded the newly formed company a monopoly on trade with all countries east of the Cape of Good Hope and west of the Straits of Magellan. Sir James Lancaster commanded the first East India Company voyage in 1601 and returned in 1603. and in March 1604 Sir Henry Middleton commanded the second voyage. General William Keeling, a captain during the second voyage, led the third voyage from 1607 to 1610.
qas: answers: text: a Royal Charter
question: What did the Queen give them for suceeding?

answers: text: Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading with the East Indies
question: What was the name of the Royal Charter?

answers: text: a monopoly on trade with all countries east of the Cape of Good Hope and west of the Straits of Magellan
question: What did this charter give them?

answers: text: Sir James Lancaster
question: Who commanded the the voyage between 1601 and 1603?

answers: text: General William Keeling
question: Who led the third voyage?

answers: text: Sir James Lancaster
question: Who commanded the the voyage between 1601 and 1603?

answers: text: Sir Henry Middleton
question: Who commanded the second  voyage in 1604?

answers: text: General
question: What was the rank of the person who commanded the third voyage?

answers: text: Merchants of London
question: what was the name of the company that traded with East Indies?

answers: text: fifteen
question: how many years did the Merchants of London has a monoploy on trade?

context: In the next two years, the company established its first factory in south India in the town of Machilipatnam on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal. The high profits reported by the company after landing in India initially prompted King James I to grant subsidiary licences to other trading companies in England. But in 1609 he renewed the charter given to the company for an indefinite period, including a clause that specified that the charter would cease to be in force if the trade turned unprofitable for three consecutive years.
qas: answers: text: town of Machilipatnam on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal
question: Where was the first factory in south India?

answers: text: indefinite
question: In 1609 the charter was renewed for what period of time?

answers: text: charter would cease to be in force
question: what would happen if the trade did not return a profit for at least 3 years?

answers: text: high profits
question: why did King James I licence other trading companies from england?

answers: text: Machilipatnam
question: Where was the first factory in south India?

answers: text: high profits
question: What initially moved King James 1 to grant subsidiary licences to other trading companies in England?

answers: text: the charter would cease to be in force if the trade turned unprofitable for three consecutive years.
question: While the company was  giving an indefinite period when renewing thier charter what clause did King james use to make sure the company stayed profitable

answers: text: three consecutive years
question: how many years did the Merchants of London have to become profitabl when their charter was renewed by king james?

context: The company, which benefited from the imperial patronage, soon expanded its commercial trading operations, eclipsing the Portuguese Estado da Índia, which had established bases in Goa, Chittagong, and Bombay, which Portugal later ceded to England as part of the dowry of Catherine de Braganza. The East India Company also launched a joint attack with the Dutch United East India Company on Portuguese and Spanish ships off the coast of China, which helped secure their ports in China. The company established trading posts in Surat (1619), Madras (1639), Bombay (1668), and Calcutta (1690). By 1647, the company had 23 factories, each under the command of a factor or master merchant and governor if so chosen, and 90 employees in India. The major factories became the walled forts of Fort William in Bengal, Fort St George in Madras, and Bombay Castle.
qas: answers: text: 1668
question: when was the bombay trading post established?

answers: text: factor or master merchant and governor
question: who commanded the factories owned by the East India company?

answers: text: Dutch United East India Company
question: who helped join the East India company in a joint attack on Portuguese and Spanish ships?

answers: text: 90
question: how many employees were in the factories in India?

answers: text: major factories
question: what were the walled forts of Fort William in Bengal, Fort St George in Madras and Bombay castle before they were forts?

answers: text: Dutch
question: who helped join the East India company in a joint attack on Portuguese and Spanish ships?

answers: text: 23
question: by 1647 how many factories did the company have?

answers: text: commercial trading operations
question: the east india company changed how it did business by moving from  focusing on royal patronage to what type of business?

answers: text: Portuguese Estado da Índia
question: when the east india company move to commercial  trading what  company did they surpass?

answers: text: walled forts
question: The top or most important factories had what  physical feature in  common?

context: In 1634, the Mughal emperor extended his hospitality to the English traders to the region of Bengal, and in 1717 completely waived customs duties for the trade. The company's mainstay businesses were by then cotton, silk, indigo dye, saltpetre, and tea. The Dutch were aggressive competitors and had meanwhile expanded their monopoly of the spice trade in the Malaccan straits by ousting the Portuguese in 1640–41. With reduced Portuguese and Spanish influence in the region, the EIC and Dutch East India Company (VOC) entered a period of intense competition, resulting in the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the 17th and 18th centuries.
qas: answers: text: Anglo-Dutch Wars of the 17th and 18th centuries
question: Name the wars that was caused by the intense competition between the EIC and Dutch East India Company

answers: text: ousting the Portuguese in 1640–41
question: what caused the Dutch to expand thier spice trade in the malaccan straits?

answers: text: The company's mainstay business
question: How important were cotton, silk, indigo dye,saltpetre and tea to the company?

answers: text: 1717
question: what year did the Mughal emperor completely wave customs duities?

answers: text: English traders
question: who did the Mughal emperor extend hospitality to?

answers: text: Bengal
question: what region was made available to english traders by  the Mughal emperor?

answers: text: waived customs duties
question: in 1717 what made the region of Bengal  so appealing to English traders?

answers: text: indigo dye
question: why type of  dye was one of the East  India company's main  products?

answers: text: The Dutch
question: Who were the main competitors that  had a monopoly of the spice trade in Malaccan?

answers: text: Anglo-Dutch Wars
question: what wars was a result of the competitive nature of the mulitple trading companies in the 17th and 18th centuries?

context: In September 1695, Captain Henry Every, an English pirate on board the Fancy, reached the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb, where he teamed up with five other pirate captains to make an attack on the Indian fleet making the annual voyage to Mocha. The Mughal convoy included the treasure-laden Ganj-i-Sawai, reported to be the greatest in the Mughal fleet and the largest ship operational in the Indian Ocean, and its escort, the Fateh Muhammed. They were spotted passing the straits en route to Surat. The pirates gave chase and caught up with Fateh Muhammed some days later, and meeting little resistance, took some £50,000 to £60,000 worth of treasure.
qas: answers: text: £50,000 to £60,000
question: How much treasure was taken by pirates?

answers: text: Ganj-i-Sawai,
question: waht was the name of largest ship operating in the Indian ocean?

answers: text: annual
question: how often did the Indian fleet voyage to Mocha?

answers: text: English pirate
question: What type of Captain was Henry Every?

answers: text: Captain Henry Every
question: What was the name of the Pirate on board the Fancy who later teamed up with five other pirate captiains to attack the Indian Fleet?

answers: text: 1695
question: When did  Captain Henry Every attack the Indian Fleet

answers: text: Mocha
question: Where was the indian Fleet headed when they were attacked by Captain Every

answers: text: Ganj-i-Sawai
question: What was reportly the largest ship in the Mughal Convoy in the Indian Fleet?

context: Every continued in pursuit and managed to overhaul Ganj-i-Sawai, which resisted strongly before eventually striking. Ganj-i-Sawai carried enormous wealth and, according to contemporary East India Company sources, was carrying a relative of the Grand Mughal, though there is no evidence to suggest that it was his daughter and her retinue. The loot from the Ganj-i-Sawai had a total value between £325,000 and £600,000, including 500,000 gold and silver pieces, and has become known as the richest ship ever taken by pirates.
qas: answers: text: 500,000
question: how many gold and silver pieces were on the Ganj-i-Sawai?

answers: text: £325,000 and £600,000
question: What was the total value of cargo on the Ganj-i-Sawai?

answers: text: a relative of the Grand Mughal
question: who was on the Ganji-i-Sawai according to the EIC?

answers: text: richest ship ever taken by pirates
question: what is the Ganj-i-Sawai know for?

answers: text: £600,000
question: What was reportedly the high value of of loot that the Ganj-i-Sawai had?

answers: text: Ganj-i-Sawai
question: as times has past what has become know as the richest ship ever taken by Pirates?

answers: text: 500,000 gold and silver pieces
question: how many gold and silver pieces were on the Ganj-i-Sawai?

context: When the news arrived in England it caused an outcry. In response, a combined bounty of £1,000 was offered for Every's capture by the Privy Council and East India Company, leading to the first worldwide manhunt in recorded history. The plunder of Aurangzeb's treasure ship had serious consequences for the English East India Company. The furious Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb ordered Sidi Yaqub and Nawab Daud Khan to attack and close four of the company's factories in India and imprison their officers, who were almost lynched by a mob of angry Mughals, blaming them for their countryman's depredations, and threatened to put an end to all English trading in India. To appease Emperor Aurangzeb and particularly his Grand Vizier Asad Khan, Parliament exempted Every from all of the Acts of Grace (pardons) and amnesties it would subsequently issue to other pirates.
qas: answers: text: Every
question: Who caused the first worldwide manhunt?

answers: text: £1,000
question: What was the total bounty offered for Captian Every after England heard that the Ganj-i-Sawai was  taken

answers: text: manhunt
question: Captian Every was the focus of the first recorded worldwide.... what in history?

answers: text: Privy Council
question: What was the name of the  council that offered part of the bounty for Captain Every

answers: text: Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb
question: Who took 4 East India ship and arrested their officers as a reaction to the attack on Ganj-i-Sawai

answers: text: Acts of Grace
question: Due to the danger the Captian Every put the trading abiliy of East India Company what  Act would he never qualify for that other pirate were later offered?

context: This allowed any English firm to trade with India, unless specifically prohibited by act of parliament, thereby annulling the charter that had been in force for almost 100 years. By an act that was passed in 1698, a new "parallel" East India Company (officially titled the English Company Trading to the East Indies) was floated under a state-backed indemnity of £2 million. The powerful stockholders of the old company quickly subscribed a sum of £315,000 in the new concern, and dominated the new body. The two companies wrestled with each other for some time, both in England and in India, for a dominant share of the trade.
qas: answers: text: prohibited by act of parliament
question: enlish firms were allow to trade with  India unless?

answers: text: English Company Trading to the East Indies
question: what was the name of the  second East india company that ended up runnig parallel to the first?

answers: text: India
question: The two parallel East India company  had a power stuggle in both  England and?

answers: text: 1698
question: In what  year was the Act passed the made a parallel East India company?

answers: text: £315,000
question: The stock holder of the Original East India  company rasied how much money  to  try and deal with the parallel East India Company?

context: In the following decades there was a constant battle between the company lobby and the Parliament. The company sought a permanent establishment, while the Parliament would not willingly allow it greater autonomy and so relinquish the opportunity to exploit the company's profits. In 1712, another act renewed the status of the company, though the debts were repaid. By 1720, 15% of British imports were from India, almost all passing through the company, which reasserted the influence of the company lobby. The licence was prolonged until 1766 by yet another act in 1730.
qas: answers: text: 15%
question: in 1720 what % of  import goods were from India? 

answers: text: Parliament
question: Who passed the acts that effected the profits of East india company

answers: text: company lobby
question: Who argued against parliament on the trade issue that involded the East India Company

context: At this time, Britain and France became bitter rivals. Frequent skirmishes between them took place for control of colonial possessions. In 1742, fearing the monetary consequences of a war, the British government agreed to extend the deadline for the licensed exclusive trade by the company in India until 1783, in return for a further loan of £1 million. Between 1756 and 1763, the Seven Years' War diverted the state's attention towards consolidation and defence of its territorial possessions in Europe and its colonies in North America.
qas: answers: text: £1 million
question: The British Government agrree to extend the licensed for the company in India until 1793 for how much money

answers: text: monetary consequences of a war
question: What was the big fear that brought the British government to extend the deadline for the trade license for the company?

answers: text: Seven Years' War
question: What was the name of the  war that lasted from 1756 to 1763?

answers: text: colonies in North America
question: The seven years' war  changed the British state focus from trade to protecting  europe and defending  which colonies?

answers: text: 1763
question: in what year did the Seven years' war

context: With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, Britain surged ahead of its European rivals. Demand for Indian commodities was boosted by the need to sustain the troops and the economy during the war, and by the increased availability of raw materials and efficient methods of production. As home to the revolution, Britain experienced higher standards of living. Its spiralling cycle of prosperity, demand and production had a profound influence on overseas trade. The company became the single largest player in the British global market. William Henry Pyne notes in his book The Microcosm of London (1808) that:
qas: answers: text: Industrial Revolution
question: what was the type of  Revolution that allowed Britian to move ahead of its European rivals?

answers: text: The Microcosm of London
question: What was the name of William Henry Pyne book from 1808?

answers: text: The company
question: What became the largest player in the British global market according to William Henry Pyne?

answers: text: Britain
question: What country was the home to the Industrial Revolution?

answers: text: raw
question: The industrial revoluntion gave raise to the access to what type of material?

context: Outstanding debts were also agreed and the company permitted to export 250 tons of saltpetre. Again in 1673, Banks successfully negotiated another contract for 700 tons of saltpetre at £37,000 between the king and the company. So urgent was the need to supply the armed forces in the United Kingdom, America and elsewhere that the authorities sometimes turned a blind eye on the untaxed sales. One governor of the company was even reported as saying in 1864 that he would rather have the saltpetre made than the tax on salt.
qas: answers: text: saltpetre
question: Due to agreed debt what 250 tons  product was first permitted to be exported by the company after the seven years' war?

answers: text: 1673
question: in what year did Banks  negotiate between the king and the East india company for 700 tons of saltpetre?

answers: text: armed forces
question: Saltpetre was used for what people, specifically the need for this product had people overlooking untaxed sales? 

answers: text: salt
question: One of the governor of the company said that he would rather have saltpetre then____ in its raw form?

answers: text: £37,000
question: how much did 700 tons of saltpetre go for in the contract negotiated by Banks in 1673

context: By the Treaty of Paris (1763), France regained the five establishments captured by the British during the war (Pondichéry, Mahe, Karikal, Yanam and Chandernagar) but was prevented from erecting fortifications and keeping troops in Bengal (art. XI). Elsewhere in India, the French were to remain a military threat, particularly during the War of American Independence, and up to the capture of Pondichéry in 1793 at the outset of the French Revolutionary Wars without any military presence. Although these small outposts remained French possessions for the next two hundred years, French ambitions on Indian territories were effectively laid to rest, thus eliminating a major source of economic competition for the company.
qas: answers: text: 1763
question: what year was the Treaty of Paris agreed on?

answers: text: five
question: The treaty of Paris return how many esablishment captured by the British?

answers: text: Bengal
question: The Treaty of Paris prevented France from keeping troops in what location?

answers: text: French Revolutionary Wars
question: in 1793 what war was the french involded in even without a big  military presences?

context: In its first century and half, the EIC used a few hundred soldiers as guards. The great expansion came after 1750, when it had 3000 regular troops. By 1763, it had 26,000; by 1778, it had 67,000. It recruited largely Indian troops, and trained them along European lines. The company, fresh from a colossal victory, and with the backing of its own private well-disciplined and experienced army, was able to assert its interests in the Carnatic region from its base at Madras and in Bengal from Calcutta, without facing any further obstacles from other colonial powers.
qas: answers: text: EIC
question: what is the acronym for the East india company?

answers: text: 3000
question: In 1750 how many regular troops did the  EIC  have? 

answers: text: Indian
question: in 1778 most of the troops that the EIC had were from where?

answers: text: 1763
question: what year did the EIC have 26,000 troops in their employ

context: With the gradual weakening of the Marathas in the aftermath of the three Anglo-Maratha wars, the British also secured the Ganges-Jumna Doab, the Delhi-Agra region, parts of Bundelkhand, Broach, some districts of Gujarat, the fort of Ahmmadnagar, province of Cuttack (which included Mughalbandi/the coastal part of Odisha, Garjat/the princely states of Odisha, Balasore Port, parts of Midnapore district of West Bengal), Bombay (Mumbai) and the surrounding areas, leading to a formal end of the Maratha empire and firm establishment of the British East India Company in India.
qas: answers: text: three
question: how many Anglo Maratha wars were there?

answers: text: Maratha empire
question: What empire ended after the three Anglo- Maratha wars?

answers: text: India
question: With the formal end of Maratha Empire the EIC created a  firm hold on what country?

answers: text: gradual
question: Was the Maratha Empire ended quick or gradual?

answers: text: British
question: what country  took over the fort of Ahmmadnagar that then became part of the cause for the Maratha Emprie to end?

context: Within the Army, British officers who initially trained at the company's own academy at the Addiscombe Military Seminary, always outranked Indians, no matter how long their service. The highest rank to which an Indian soldier could aspire was Subadar-Major (or Rissaldar-Major in cavalry units), effectively a senior subaltern equivalent. Promotion for both British and Indian soldiers was strictly by seniority, so Indian soldiers rarely reached the commissioned ranks of Jamadar or Subadar before they were middle aged at best. They received no training in administration or leadership to make them independent of their British officers.
qas: answers: text: Addiscombe Military Seminary
question: What was the name of EIC military company?

answers: text: Subadar-Major
question: what was the  highest rank an Indian could be in the EIC army

answers: text: seniority
question: While in EIC army  the British officer outrank the indian officer they  both promoted based on?

context: In 1838 with the amount of smuggled opium entering China approaching 1,400 tons a year, the Chinese imposed a death penalty for opium smuggling and sent a Special Imperial Commissioner, Lin Zexu, to curb smuggling. This resulted in the First Opium War (1839–42). After the war Hong Kong island was ceded to Britain under the Treaty of Nanking and the Chinese market opened to the opium traders of Britain and other nations. The Jardines and Apcar and Company dominated the trade, although P&O also tried to take a share. A Second Opium War fought by Britain and France against China lasted from 1856 until 1860 and led to the Treaty of Tientsin, which legalised the importation of opium. Legalisation stimulated domestic Chinese opium production and increased the importation of opium from Turkey and Persia. This increased competition for the Chinese market led to India reducing its opium output and diversifying its exports.
qas: answers: text: death penalty
question: in 1838 what was the sentence for smuggling opium in to China?

answers: text: 1,400 tons
question: in 1838 about how many tone of  Opium was smuggled in to China per year?

answers: text: Special Imperial Commissioner
question: what was the title of the person people were sent to if they were  caught smuggling Opium in to China?

answers: text: 1839
question: when did the first Opium war start?

answers: text: France
question: Britian faught side by side with what country  in the second Opium war?

context: Despite stiff resistance from the East India lobby in parliament and from the Company's shareholders, the Act passed. It introduced substantial governmental control and allowed British India to be formally under the control of the Crown, but leased back to the Company at £40,000 for two years. Under the Act's most important provision, a governing Council composed of five members was created in Calcutta. The three members nominated by Parliament and representing the Government's interest could, and invariably would, outvote the two Company members. The Council was headed by Warren Hastings, the incumbent Governor, who became the first Governor-General of Bengal, with an ill-defined authority over the Bombay and Madras Presidencies. His nomination, made by the Court of Directors, would in future be subject to the approval of a Council of Four appointed by the Crown. Initially, the Council consisted of Lt. General Sir John Clavering, The Honourable Sir George Monson, Sir Richard Barwell, and Sir Philip Francis.
qas: answers: text: Parliament
question: EIC was leased back the land they held in British India by what part of the British goverment?

answers: text: £40,000
question: How much did the parliament lease British india for to EIC (the lease was for two years)? 

answers: text: five
question: The British Government  created a how many man council in Calcutta?

answers: text: two
question: How many council member weres allow to be from the EIC?

answers: text: outvote
question: By having 3 members on the council in Calcutta from the British Government they were always able to ____ the two EIC members?

context: Hastings was entrusted with the power of peace and war. British judges and magistrates would also be sent to India to administer the legal system. The Governor General and the council would have complete legislative powers. The company was allowed to maintain its virtual monopoly over trade in exchange for the biennial sum and was obligated to export a minimum quantity of goods yearly to Britain. The costs of administration were to be met by the company. The Company initially welcomed these provisions, but the annual burden of the payment contributed to the steady decline of its finances.
qas: answers: text: British
question: in British indian a jugde had to come from where to oversee the  legal system?

answers: text: The Governor General
question: The highest ranking persons title in British india is?

answers: text: Governor General
question: The highest ranking person's title in British india is?

answers: text: trade
question: Did EIC have a monopoly over the governement or trade in british india 

answers: text: export a minimum quantity of goods yearly to Britain
question: Other then money what did it cost the EIC to have the control in trade the had in British India

context: Pitt's Act was deemed a failure because it quickly became apparent that the boundaries between government control and the company's powers were nebulous and highly subjective. The government felt obliged to respond to humanitarian calls for better treatment of local peoples in British-occupied territories. Edmund Burke, a former East India Company shareholder and diplomat, was moved to address the situation and introduced a new Regulating Bill in 1783. The bill was defeated amid lobbying by company loyalists and accusations of nepotism in the bill's recommendations for the appointment of councillors.
qas: answers: text: Pitt's Act
question: The name of the Act that was a failure in creating bourdaries for the Crown and the EIC for being subjective?

answers: text: humanitarian
question: after the Pitt act the Crown began to focus more on _______ efforts of its people in it territories?

answers: text: Edmund Burke
question: what was the  name of the person who was once a large  shareholder in EIC and talk to the issues with with the new Regulating bill in 1793?

answers: text: defeated
question: Was the new Regulating Bill of 1793 passed or defeated?

context: This Act clearly demarcated borders between the Crown and the Company. After this point, the Company functioned as a regularised subsidiary of the Crown, with greater accountability for its actions and reached a stable stage of expansion and consolidation. Having temporarily achieved a state of truce with the Crown, the Company continued to expand its influence to nearby territories through threats and coercive actions. By the middle of the 19th century, the Company's rule extended across most of India, Burma, Malaya, Singapore, and British Hong Kong, and a fifth of the world's population was under its trading influence. In addition, Penang, one of the states in Malaya, became the fourth most important settlement, a presidency, of the Company's Indian territories.
qas: answers: text: fifth
question: by the middle of the 19th century how much of the worlds population was effected by EIC and it trade?

answers: text: Penang
question: To EIC in Malaya what state  was the forth most improtant settlement?

answers: text: regularised subsidiary
question: during this time the relationship change between Britian and the EIC. the EIC became more of a what to the crown??

answers: text: greater accountability
question: when EIC become more like a regularised subsidiary  did they have greater or less accountability to the Crown

context: The aggressive policies of Lord Wellesley and the Marquis of Hastings led to the Company gaining control of all India (except for the Punjab and Sindh), and some part of the then kingdom of Nepal under the Sugauli Treaty. The Indian Princes had become vassals of the Company. But the expense of wars leading to the total control of India strained the Company's finances. The Company was forced to petition Parliament for assistance. This was the background to the Charter Act of 1813 which, among other things:
qas: answers: text: Lord Wellesley
question: What Lord helped the EIC through his politics, take control over all of india?

answers: text: the expense of wars
question: in the past the deals under the crown strained the finances of EIC  now as they expained throughout India what was the biggest strain on their finances

answers: text: Sugauli Treaty
question: what treaty  allowed the Eic in to the then kingdom of nepal?

answers: text: Sindh
question: While the EIc took over all of India there were, two exception the first being Punjab, what was the Second?

answers: text: Charter Act of 1813
question: EIC reached out to parliament for help with finances. this lead to which Act?

context: The Company's headquarters in London, from which much of India was governed, was East India House in Leadenhall Street. After occupying premises in Philpot Lane from 1600 to 1621; in Crosby House, Bishopsgate, from 1621 to 1638; and in Leadenhall Street from 1638 to 1648, the Company moved into Craven House, an Elizabethan mansion in Leadenhall Street. The building had become known as East India House by 1661. It was completely rebuilt and enlarged in 1726–9; and further significantly remodelled and expanded in 1796–1800. It was finally vacated in 1860 and demolished in 1861–62. The site is now occupied by the Lloyd's building.
qas: answers: text: London
question: Where were the EIC  headquarters located?

answers: text: East India House
question: What was the name of EIC headquartes?

answers: text: Leadenhall Street
question: between 1638 and 1648 what street was EIC headquarters on?

answers: text: Craven House
question: Where was the EIC headquarters moved to after  1648?

answers: text: the Lloyd's building
question: What building now sits where the EIC headquarters last sat?

context: In 1803, an Act of Parliament, promoted by the East India Company, established the East India Dock Company, with the aim of establishing a new set of docks (the East India Docks) primarily for the use of ships trading with India. The existing Brunswick Dock, part of the Blackwall Yard site, became the Export Dock; while a new Import Dock was built to the north. In 1838 the East India Dock Company merged with the West India Dock Company. The docks were taken over by the Port of London Authority in 1909, and closed in 1967.
qas: answers: text: promoted by the East India Company
question: in 1803 was act of parliament supported by  EIC? 

answers: text: East India Dock Company
question: the 1803 act created what dock program?

answers: text: aim of establishing a new set of docks (the East India Docks) primarily for the use of ships trading with India
question: The goal of the East in dock company was  first what?

answers: text: Brunswick Dock
question: What was the name of the export dock of the EIC after the 1803 act?

answers: text: West India Dock Company
question: in 1838 what company did the  East india dock company merge with? 

context: From the period of 1600, the canton consisted of a St George's Cross representing the Kingdom of England. With the Acts of Union 1707, the canton was updated to be the new Union Flag—consisting of an English St George's Cross combined with a Scottish St Andrew's cross—representing the Kingdom of Great Britain. After the Acts of Union 1800 that joined Ireland with Great Britain to form the United Kingdom, the canton of the East India Company flag was altered accordingly to include a Saint Patrick's Saltire replicating the updated Union Flag representing the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
qas: answers: text: St George's Cross
question: in the period of  1600 what Canton cross repesented England

answers: text: St Andrew's cross
question: after the act of  1707  what was the second  cross added to the Canton for great britian

answers: text: 1707
question: IN what year did the canton become a flag with crosses on it and not just a cross?

answers: text: 1800
question: in wat year did  ireland join with great britian offically?

answers: text: United Kingdom
question: What is the name of the union that Ireland and Great Britian created when they came together?

context: "Azure, three ships with three masts, rigged and under full sail, the sails, pennants and ensigns Argent, each charged with a cross Gules; on a chief of the second a pale quarterly Azure and Gules, on the 1st and 4th a fleur-de-lis or, on the 2nd and 3rd a leopard or, between two roses Gules seeded Or barbed Vert." The shield had as a crest: "A sphere without a frame, bounded with the Zodiac in bend Or, between two pennants flottant Argent, each charged with a cross Gules, over the sphere the words DEUS INDICAT" (Latin: God Indicates). The supporters were two sea lions (lions with fishes' tails) and the motto was DEO DUCENTE NIL NOCET (Latin: Where God Leads, Nothing Hurts).
qas: answers: text: God Indicates
question: What does DEUS INDICAT mean?

answers: text: roses
question: what type of flowers did Gules use?

answers: text: sea lions
question: after the DEUS INDICAT what type of sea animals were pictured?

answers: text: three
question: in the above quote how many ship and masts were indicated?

answers: text: leopard
question: What animal was listed as part of the four fleur-de-lis in the above quote

context: The East India Company's arms, granted in 1698, were: "Argent a cross Gules; in the dexter chief quarter an escutcheon of the arms of France and England quarterly, the shield ornamentally and regally crowned Or." The crest was: "A lion rampant guardant Or holding between the forepaws a regal crown proper." The supporters were: "Two lions rampant guardant Or, each supporting a banner erect Argent, charged with a cross Gules." The motto was AUSPICIO REGIS ET SENATUS ANGLIÆ (Latin: By right of the King and the Senate of England).
qas: answers: text: lion
question: The EIC Arms feature what king of the jungle animal on it?

answers: text: crown
question: in the arms of EIC what was the lion holding in his forepaws

answers: text: Two
question: how many lions were on the EIC arms

answers: text: 1698
question: what year did the EIC arms include both france and england?

context: During the period of the Napoleonic Wars, the East India Company arranged for letters of marque for its vessels such as the Lord Nelson. This was not so that they could carry cannon to fend off warships, privateers and pirates on their voyages to India and China (that they could do without permission) but so that, should they have the opportunity to take a prize, they could do so without being guilty of piracy. Similarly, the Earl of Mornington, an East India Company packet ship of only six guns, also sailed under a letter of marque.
qas: answers: text: Napoleonic Wars
question: During what war Did the EIC get letter of marque for its vessels

answers: text: should they have the opportunity to take a prize, they could do so without being guilty of piracy
question: Why did EIC want tthe letters of marque most?

answers: text: cannon
question: With out the letters of marque what wepon did  they have to protect themself that was a part of their ship?

answers: text: six
question: The Earl of Mornington would have how many ___ guns on the EIc ships?

context: At the Battle of Pulo Aura, which was probably the company's most notable naval victory, Nathaniel Dance, Commodore of a convoy of Indiamen and sailing aboard the Warley, led several Indiamen in a skirmish with a French squadron, driving them off. Some six years earlier, on 28 January 1797, five Indiamen, the Woodford, under Captain Charles Lennox, the Taunton-Castle, Captain Edward Studd, Canton, Captain Abel Vyvyan, and Boddam, Captain George Palmer, and Ocean, Captain John Christian Lochner, had encountered Admiral de Sercey and his squadron of frigates. On this occasion the Indiamen also succeeded in bluffing their way to safety, and without any shots even being fired. Lastly, on 15 June 1795, the General Goddard played a large role in the capture of seven Dutch East Indiamen off St Helena.
qas: answers: text: Battle of Pulo Aura
question: What was the most notable naval victory EIC  had?

answers: text: General Goddard
question: what general played the biggest role in the capture of the seven Dutch East Indiamen?

answers: text: off St Helena
question: Where were the 7 Dutch Easteast indiamen capture?

answers: text: bluffing
question: In 1797 how did the  Woodford  get to safety without firing one bullet?

answers: text: Captain Charles Lennox
question: in 1797 who was the captian of the Woodford that is first listed of the 5 captians?

context: Unlike all other British Government records, the records from the East India Company (and its successor the India Office) are not in The National Archives at Kew, London, but are held by the British Library in London as part of the Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections. The catalogue is searchable online in the Access to Archives catalogues. Many of the East India Company records are freely available online under an agreement that the Families in British India Society has with the British Library. Published catalogues exist of East India Company ships' journals and logs, 1600–1834; and of some of the Company's daughter institutions, including the East India Company College, Haileybury, and Addiscombe Military Seminary.
qas: answers: text: British Library in London
question: Where are the records of the EIC housed today?

answers: text: The National Archives at Kew
question: Where are the British government's records houseed today?

answers: text: The catalogue is searchable online in the Access to Archives catalogues
question: Are you able to search most of the records online today?