In 1639, after securing a permit from the king for English trading activities, Captain Francis Day of the East India Company acquired a narrow strip of land on the East Coast of India (EIC). It was the first land to be acquired by the English in India. Promptly, Day built a fort to protect a few English settlers—St. George Fort—which later evolved into the city of Madras.
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