• forces of the Dutch West India Company captured Axim in present-day Ghana and signed a treaty with the local West Africans in 1642 to become the major European power in the Gold Coast region?

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Dutch East India Company

• Jan van Riebeeck established the first vineyards in South Africa to help Dutch East India Company sailors ward off scurvy while traveling the spice route?
• Reynier van Vlissingen, the Dutch Governor of Negapatam in India, surrendered to British forces in the 1781 Siege of Negapatam because the garrison had only one day of gunpowder remaining?
• during the history of Pulicat between 1621 and 1665, over 38,000 Indian slaves were obtained by Dutch slave traders and shipped from the Coromandel Coast, mostly to the East Indies?
• in 1693 Sheikh Yusuf of Makassar, Indonesia, was exiled by the Dutch East India Company to South Africa, where he established the first Muslim community in the Cape?
• the 1609 Treaty of Antwerp was influenced by the writings of Hugo Grotius in the Mare Liberum, which was published at the insistence of the Dutch East India Company during the course of the treaty negotiations?
• the naval victory of Travancore State over Dutch East India Company in the Battle of Colachel in 1741 is considered the first example of an Asian power defeating a European navy?
• the Jakarta History Museum was formerly used as the administrative headquarters of the Dutch East India Company?
• the Mattancherry Palace, known popularly as Dutch Palace, in Kochi, India, was built by the Portuguese and renovated by the Dutch?
• the National Archives of Indonesia holds the largest archive collection related to the Dutch East India Company worldwide?
• the island of Hsiao Liuchiu off Taiwan was the scene of a massacre of 300 native inhabitants by Dutch soldiers and allied Formosan warriors in 1636?

Dutch colonization of the Americas

• Long Island's Roslyn Grist Mill is one of the few surviving Dutch colonial timber frame commercial buildings in the U.S.?
• Greenville Presbyterian Church was the first non-Dutch church established in New York's Catskill region?
• although the Benjamin Ten Broeck House north of Kingston, New York, was built by Dutch settlers, the layout of one of its additions suggests its residents were Palatine Germans?
• the Abraham Glen House, now the Scotia branch of the Schenectady County, New York, public library, is a rare surviving Dutch Colonial heavy timber frame house in the Capital District?
• the Bergh-Stoutenburgh House, one of only two remaining Dutch Colonial stone houses in Hyde Park, New York, has been converted into a Japanese restaurant?
• unlike other Dutch Colonial stone houses in the Hudson Valley, the Wynkoop House has no stone with the builder's initials?

British East India Company

• 17th-century Mughal subahdar Shaista Khan conquered Chittagong and ousted the British East India Company from Bengal over a trade dispute?
• Adwaita, the reportedly 255-year-old Aldabra Giant Tortoise that recently died in Kolkata zoo, was a pet of Robert Clive, the Commander-in-Chief, India of British East India Company?
• Avadhanum Paupiah, Indian dubash of the British East India Company was convicted in 1792 of forging evidence against David Haliburton on behalf of the Holland brothers?
• Charles Grant of the British East India Company wanted it to promote Christianity as well as trade in India?
• Company style paintings (example pictured) were made by Indian artists for patrons from the British East India Company in the 18th and 19th centuries?
• Sir William Langhorne, 1st Baronet established the Madras Record Office, the oldest record office of the British East India Company and one of the oldest archival institutions in the world?
• William Hamilton, a surgeon of British East India Company, cured the Mughal emperor Farrukhsiyar from recurrent illness, thereby hastening the process of achieving the grant that allowed the company to legally trade in India?
• the 1622 wreck of the British East India Company ship, the Tryall is the oldest shipwreck in Australia?
• the Pagal Panthis were a religious order who led the peasants of the Mymensingh region of Bengal in armed revolts against the British East India Company and zamindars?
• the Sannyasi Rebellion was a series of clashes between Indian ascetics and the British East India Company during the eighteenth century in Bengal?

French East India Company

• Ananda Ranga Pillai (pictured), famous for his diaries which portray life in 18th-century India, was a dubash in the service of the French East India Company?