India, Danish India: Royal Colony, 4 Cash – 1799

Description

The dissolution of the Asian company and the opening of trade, together with an almost continuous state of war between the great powers, the United Kingdom, France and Holland, will favor the Danish establishments in India, causing them to enter a golden age of commerce. In the Napoleonic wars, this modus operandi to bring the assets of the French and Dutch colonies to Europe, allowing in the background the trade of the enemy colonies, ended up forcing the declaration of war by the United Kingdom and the loss of the fleet . After the Napoleonic wars, the colonies lost profitability and most ports were sold to the British. Tranquebar in 1845, and the latest possessions that were the Nicobar Islands, in 1868 ending more than two centuries of Danish presence in India.