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La Compagnie des Indes orientales, appelée dans un second temps Compagnie britannique des Indes orientales (d'abord anglaise, sous le nom de East India Company, EIC, puis britannique sous le nom de British East India Company, BEIC) a été créée le 31 décembre 1600 par une charte royale de la reine Élisabeth Ire d'Angleterre lui conférant ...
Company rule in India (sometimes Company Raj, from Hindi: rāj, lit. 'rule') was the rule of the British East India Company on the Indian subcontinent.This is variously taken to have commenced in 1757, after the Battle of Plassey, when the Nawab of Bengal Siraj ud-Daulah was defeated and replaced with Mir Jafar, who had the support of the East India Company; or in 1765, when the Company was ...
The flag of the East India Company was used to represent the East India Company, which was chartered in England in 1600. The flag was altered as the nation changed from England to Great Britain to the United Kingdom. It was initially a red and white striped ensign with the flag of England in the canton. The flag displayed in the canton was ...
The French East India Company ( French: Compagnie française pour le commerce des Indes orientales) was a joint-stock company founded in France on 1 September 1664 to compete with the English (later British) and Dutch trading companies in the East Indies. [1] Planned by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, it was chartered by King Louis XIV for the purpose ...
Samuel Shepheard (died 1719) John Shepherd (governor and chairman) Alexander Silver. John Smith-Burges. Frederick Smith (British Army officer, born 1790) Thomas Smythe. James Charles Stuart Strange. George Stratton (politician) Frederick Stuart (British politician)
Look up East India Company in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. East India Company is a general term, referring to a number of European trading companies established in the early modern era to establish trade relations with and subsequently political control over the Indian subcontinent, the Indonesian archipelago and the neighbouring lands in ...
The first East India House on the site was an Elizabethan mansion, previously known as Craven House, which the Company first occupied in 1648. This was completely rebuilt in 1726–29; and further remodelled and extended in 1796–1800. It was demolished in 1861. The Lloyd's building, headquarters for Lloyd's of London, was built on the site of ...
