In 1826 the British formed a colony called the Straits Settlements. In 1840 a wealthy British trader called James Brooke helped the Sultan of Brunei put down a rebellion. As a reward, teh Sultan gave James Brooke all of Sarawak and made him a Rajah. The Brooke family reigned as "white rajahs" until the 1940s. In the north of Borneo, a trading company called teh British North Borneo Company colonized all of what is now called Sabah. This meant that Britain controlled all of what is now called Malaysia. The British granted independence to Malaysia in 1957. However, they stayed in military control until 1960 to help stop a communist rebellion. In 1962 the British army came again to defend Malaysia and Brunei against the invasion from Indonesia.