Cadillac may have seen this move as a necessary tactic to check the English traders.
The English traders settled in the southern bank of the river Mahananda.
The first English traders visited the area about the year 1767.
English traders had been present in Malay waters since the 17th century.
It probably did not include the settlements of English traders.
Before he storms off, Walker, an English trader, is introduced.
The area was founded by English traders in the 18th or 19th century and settled as a community.
English traders, not wishing to risk visiting a town that now resembled a war zone, sought out new commercial links.
The relations, too, between the English traders and the Chinese officials were daily becoming more strained.
In the 17th and 18th century, the French and English traders visited the area.