Leendert Hasenbosch, a Dutch East India Company soldier, was marooned on Ascension Island as punishment for sodomy in 1725. Abandoned on an uninhabited island, he kept a diary of his days as a ...

The Dutch fleet of 1,655 soldiers and sailors and more than a dozen wooden ships landed ... It was the most powerful military campaign the Dutch East India Company had sent to Asia thus far. Sign up.

Dutch physician Wouter Schouten gave an impressive description of the Dutch East India Company’s factory in a place called Chinsurah, close to the Hooghly River, in 1676: ...

But Erik Odegard of Erasmus University in Rotterdam in his paper entitled: In Search of Sepoys: Indian soldiers and the Dutch East India Company in India and Sri Lanka, 1760–1795 (War in History ...

The Dutch East India Company ship, the Zuytdorp, likely crashed into the shore of Western Australia in 1712 due to a storm and not bad navigation, new research has found. advertisement.

The Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie), known as the VOC, wasn’t state-owned as he suggests. It was the first limited liability company.