26 Facts About Dutch East India

The name 'Dutch East India Company' is used to make a distinction from the [British] East India Company and other East Indian companies .

In 1600, the Dutch East India joined forces with the Muslim Hituese on Ambon Island in an anti-Portuguese alliance, in return for which the Dutch East India were given the sole right to purchase spices from Hitu.

In 1613, the Dutch East India expelled the Portuguese from their Solor fort, but a subsequent Portuguese attack led to a second change of hands; following this second reoccupation, the Dutch East India captured Solor in 1636.

East of Solor, on the island of Timor, Dutch advances were halted by an autonomous and powerful group of Portuguese Eurasians called the Topasses.

In 1602, the Dutch government followed suit, sponsoring the creation of a single "United East Indies Company" that was granted monopoly over the Asian trade.

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Dutch East India saw the possibility of the VOC becoming an Asian power, both political and economic.

Dutch East India supported Christian missionaries and traded modern technology with China and Japan.

Dutch East India had however already followed the example of its European competitors in diversifying into other Asian commodities, like tea, coffee, cotton, textiles, and sugar.

The Dutch East India military searched houses of Chinese in Batavia for weapons.

The Dutch East India later re-captured Manhattan, but returned it along with the colony of New Netherland in the Treaty of Westminster ending the Third Anglo-Dutch East India War.

Dutch East India was much an unofficial representative of the States General of the United Provinces in foreign relations of the Dutch Republic with many states, especially Dutch-Asian relations.

Fine textiles from Dutch East India were a popular luxury import into Indonesia, and some still survive as treasured heirlooms.

The Dutch East India came to dominate the map-making and map printing industry by virtue of their own travels, trade ventures, and widespread commercial networks.

Dutch East India ships carried goods, but they opened up opportunities for the exchange of knowledge.

Hansken, a young female Asian elephant from Dutch East India Ceylon, was brought to Amsterdam in 1637, aboard a VOC ship.

Dutch East India was turned back by the ice of the Arctic in his second attempt, so he sailed west to seek a north-west passage rather than return home.

Dutch East India ended up exploring the waters off the east coast of North America aboard the vlieboot Halve Maen.

Dutch East India first discovered Delaware Bay and began to sail upriver looking for the passage.

Dutch East India found the water too shallow to proceed several days later, at the site of present-day Troy, New York.

Dutch East India's report was first published in 1611 by Emanuel Van Meteren, an Antwerp emigre and the Dutch Consul at London.

Dutch East India replaced it with one of his own, which included a copy of Hartog's inscription, and took the original plate home to Amsterdam, where it is still kept in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

Dutch East India named Tasmania Anthoonij van Diemenslandt, after Anthony van Diemen, the VOC's governor-general, who had commissioned his voyage.

In 1645 Dutch East India cartographers changed the name to Nova Zeelandia in Latin, from Nieuw Zeeland, after the Dutch East India province of Zeeland.

The Dutch East India launched punitive expeditions that resulted in the near destruction of Bandanese society.

In 1659 Doman, a Khoikhoi who had worked as a translator for the Dutch East India and had even traveled to Java, led an armed attempt to expel the Dutch East India from the Cape peninsula.

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Second Flag of the Dutch East India Company, adopted with red stripe around 1630 or 1663 and beyond, for the purpose of better visibility at sea against a light sky.