The Madras Regiment marked the 284th anniversary of the Battle of Colachel, where King Marthanda Varma's forces defeated the Dutch East India Company in an amphibious battle in 1741. The victory is ...

Rout of Dutch power in Malabar region Amidst the saga of Dutch -Anglo -rivalry Travancore king Marthanda Varma gave a fatal blow to the Dutch East India Company in the battle of Colachel in 1741 ...

The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, or VOC), which was established in 1602, was not the first of these.

The Dutch East India Company was founded in 1602 — two years after the British East India Company received the royal charter from Queen Elizabeth I. The Dutch firm had five settlements and ...

Experience Hoorn, a historic gem in North Holland, Netherlands, on the shores of the Markermeer Lake. Dating back to the 14th ...

The story of the other East India Company: a Dutch enterprise in Ceylon (gorgeous images alert) They came to oust the Portuguese, but stayed far longer than the king of Ceylon wanted them to.

On 20 March 1602, the Dutch East India Company (‘Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie’ in Dutch) or the VOC announced the first initial public offering (IPO), laying a foundation for modern ...

The UNESCO Memory of the World archive of the Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC), consisting of approximately twenty-five million pages, not only gives insights into ...

In 1609, a delegation from the Dutch East India Company traveled to Sunpu, Shizuoka Prefecture, for an audience with Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616).

The English East India Company, founded in 1600, two years before the Dutch one, would later do much the same in India. To Asians, this is a simple, nasty tale of European imperialism.