User blog comment:John Breasly/East India Trading Company - Reborn/@comment-3432656-20111129001830

OK.... Siiiiire I've done some more Research on our Honourable East India Company which is how it was Govern and it's Military in Real History. The East India Company's land based army formed a unique body, with three main Bodies. By 1734 each presidency provided for its own defense with a mixed force of troops, including a small cavalry, artillery units and regular infantry. The whole majority of these forces consisted of sepoys officered by transferred British Army officers. The conditions of service were particular to the Company's army. The officers could not purchase commissions as in the British army proper, for example, and promotion was based on seniority. Now Ranks within the Company’s Private Army the British Military ranking in which at one point during the 1730’s all ranks in the East India Company’s were based of the British Army and Royal Navy’s Ranks due to the British contributing their own soldiers to the ETC’s Military but soon most of those soldiers were replaced by Indian Soldiers. By the Mid of the 18th century the East India Company’s Army was the largest Private Army in the world until the Indian Mutiny in the 1890’s which ended the ETC. The East India Company maintained armies in its three Presidencies in India. These were formed in 1750’s and lasted until the Indian Mutiny. The European regiments were amalgamated along with the British Army in 1860 from the East India Company’s Private Army. These 'Native' regiments continued until the abolition of the Presidency Armies in the 1890s. The ETC’s Government consisted of a Board of Directors or Governors that controlled a specific area of land granted by the Chairman of the EIC who was not appointed by England but was one with great Seniority and service within the Company in which the Board of Directors or Governors would Elect a Chairman or CEO with the consent of the British Government in the Candidates. If the previous CEO or Chairman died, resigned or committed crimes against the British Empire in which since the British funded part of the East India Company, Parliament would have more of a say in the matter of the ETC’s Leaders more greatly then in a way Parliament would also have to vote on the East India Company’s Chairman. Although this never happened in real History is it still possible and it was a Policy in the Company’s Election of a Chairman. In the Pirates of the Caribbean Universe the Lord Governor is the Chairman who is elected the same exact way of the East India Company but must be also a Representative of His Majesty the King to become Leader of the Company. - drinks cup of tea - How about that for East India Trading Company's Government! We're close.... Actually.... and the bloody ranks are the same as the British Military.... bah! The Ranks I presented a few days ago were actually much later when the Company was Marine based and it's own Private Military which occured in the late 19th Century just before it's Destruction..... But.... it's going to be a great time up....... I most likely will leave the Company and remain with the British Military most likely in 1860 XD