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Queen Elizabeth started the East India Company and so the English became the common language for trading.
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Englishmen who conquered North Amerika brought their own language. Among the first Enllish colonies were Jamestown and Virginia.
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Sailors spoke a simplified form of English called Creole what the African slaves could learn and then spread over the plantations where they had to work as slaves.
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The new country's language was English.
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A relatively few aboriginals spoke quite a lot of, approximately 250 languages.
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The First Fleet was a fleet of 11 ships, which held about 780 English people. These people stayed on the island and thus also English.
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English spread even in Canada