At the 33m18sec mark, James walks through shot with his trench coat looking authentically soiled and in the next shot at 33m22sec his trench coat appears to have been dry cleaned.
The East India Company had no reason to be interested in the Pacific coast of North America. It is further from India than India is from Britain.
Delaney speaks of the "Fifteen States" and is not contradicted by the American to whom the remark is addressed. This should then be after the accession of Kentucky as the fifteenth State in 1792 and before Tennessee became the sixteenth in 1796. Yet the presence of the Prince Regent means the series cannot be set before he assumed that title in 1811.
The show takes place in 1814 and there are doorknobs on the doors. However the doorknob was not invented until 1878, 64 years later.
Reference to the United States as the "free fifteen" is anachronistic. The show is set in 1812-13; already by 1803 there were 17 states (the original 13, plus Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio)
The British Empire had little interest in the the Pacific coast of North America. They had some minor disagreements with Spain, which at the time claimed much of it.
The British Empire showed no interest in the territory' potential, allowing the USA to take California in the 1840s, and later purchase Alaska from Russia. This was before gold was discovered in either place.
The British Empire showed no interest in the territory' potential, allowing the USA to take California in the 1840s, and later purchase Alaska from Russia. This was before gold was discovered in either place.