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East India Company (Dutch)Trading monopoly of the 17th and 18th centuries; see Dutch East India Company. East India Company (French)
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He showed me his weapon, a Tower musket, bearing date 1832 and the stamp of the Honorable East India Company. Thus was created the famous "Northwest Company," which for a time held a lordly sway over the wintry lakes and boundless forests of the Canadas, almost equal to that of the East India Company over the voluptuous climes and magnificent realms of the Orient. During the seventeenth century the English East India Company, originally organized for trade, had acquired possessions in India, which, in the middle of the eighteenth century and later, the genius of Clive and Warren Hastings had increased and consolidated into a great empire. |
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