The East India Company drove the expansion of the British Empire in Asia. The Company's army had first joined forces with the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War, and the two continued to cooperate in arenas outside India: the eviction of the French from Egypt (1799), the capture of Java from the Netherlands (1811), the acquisition of Penang Island (1786), Singapore (1819) and Malacca (1824), and the defeat of Burma (1826).From its base in India, the Company had also been engaged in an increasingly profitable opium export trade to China since the 1730s. This trade, illegal since it was outlawed by the Qing dynasty in 1729, helped reverse the trade imbalances resulting from the British tea imports, which saw outflows of large silver from Britain to China. N'afọ 1839, ndị agha ụlọ ọrụ ahụ sonyeere Royal Navy na Royal Navy, ha abụọ wee nọgide na-arụkọ ọrụ na ebe ndị ọzọ na mpụga India: ịchụpụ ndị French site n'Ijipt (1799), ijide Java site na Netherlands (1811), inweta Penang Island (1786), Singapore (1819) na Mala
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