Lucknow's French connection began during Mughal Emperor Jahangir's time, with French merchants establishing trade and building mansions. Later, Frenchmen like Jean Baptiste Gentil and Charles Emmanuel ...

Emilie Michiels van Kessenich came to Dallas in 1946 as part of a Dutch program ... eight miles east of Emilie’s home, is the final resting place of more than 10,000 American soldiers, airmen ...

Backed by the Dutch Republic, the Dutch East India Company made its ownership available to the public to fund business and military ventures. 'Fast' is an understatement for the stock market today.

It turns out that modern stock trading traces its roots back to a Dutch trading company over four centuries ago. On 20 March 1602, the Dutch East India Company (‘Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie’ in ...

Robert Clive had joined the East ... Dutch, Danes, British and French traders, especially to Sarkar Saran and the adjoining areas. After a series of wars and diplomatic manoeuvres, the East India ...

Titus Oates and his 'Popish Plot' Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or VOC, known in English as the Dutch East India Company. The VOC dominated the spice trade ...

“It’s really amazing for us that the Dutch people remember the Polish soldiers ... Without it, there wouldn’t have been any VOC East India Company!” In a new book and short film, Kopczyńska has ...

In the 17th century, Virji Vora was another enormously rich Gujarati businessman who financed both the Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company. Such was the bonhomie between ...

An eye-opening account of the skewed perception that the English and India were on a level footing before the arrival of the East India Company ... amid courtiers, soldiers and attendants.

The Dutch fleet of 1,655 soldiers and sailors and more than ... It was the most powerful military campaign the Dutch East India Company had sent to Asia thus far. After a swift Bandanese surrender ...