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| 1783 | |
| By the Treaty of Paris, the British returned the Dutch colonies but secured the right to trade throughout the Dutch island possessions. | 1 |
| 1786 | |
| The British East India Company secured a grant of Penang (permanent cession 1790), which made a fourth Indian presidency (1805) but proved useless as a naval and commercial base. (See The Malayan Archipelago, 1798–1908) | 2 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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