Honourable East India Company

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British East India Company Summary
1,235 words, approx. 4 pages

The British East India Company was founded on the last day of 1600 through a royal charter signed by Queen Elizabeth I. In many ways it failed to achieve its initial aim of trade in spices and other items favored by the English people. British...

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Honourable East India Company Information
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The Honourable East India Company (HEIC), often colloquially referred to as "John Company", and simply as the East India Company[1] or the "Company Bahadur" in India, was an early joint-stock company (the Dutch East India Company was the first to issue...

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The Historian

The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Company. (book reviews)
03/22/1995: 537 words, approx. 2 pages

John Keay has written a history as fast-paced and gripping as any novel. Using language as rich and colorful as the merchants, seadogs, and soldiers who people his narrative, Keay recounts the near-mythic exploits of those who built a trading colossus and won...

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies

Bencoolen. A History of the Honourable East India Company's Garrison on the West Coast of Sumatra 1685-1825.(Review) (book review)
03/01/2000: 1,043 words, approx. 4 pages

Bencoolen. A History of the Honourable East India Company's Garrison on the West Coast of Sumatra 1685-1825. By ALAN HARFIELD. Barton-on-Sea: A & J Partnership, 1995. Pp. xx, 624. Maps, Plans, illustrations, Bibliography, Index. This rather large book is a history of...

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