Amboyna massacre
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The Amboyna massacre was the 1623 torture and execution on Ambon Island of twenty-one men, including ten in the service of the English East India Company, as well as Japanese and Portuguese traders an
The Dutch and English enclaves at Amboyna (top) and Banda-Neira (bottom). 1655 engraving.
Torture of the English by the Dutch according to the English account
Nicolaes Visscher Indiae Orientalis
Dutch East India Company
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The United East India Company, commonly known as the Dutch East India Company, was a chartered trading company and one of the first joint-stock companies in the world. Established on 20 March 1602 by
Amboyna massacre
…men, including ten in the service of the English East India Company, as well as Japanese and Portuguese traders and a Portuguese man, by agents of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), on accusations of treason. It was the result of the intense rivalry between the East India companies of England and the United Provinces in the…
The United East India Company was the brainchild of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, the leading statesman of the Dutch Republic.
The stock exchange of Hendrick de Keyser
![A 17th-century plaque to the [Dutch] United East India Company, the VOC, in Hoorn](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/17th_century_plaque_to_Dutch_East_India_Company_%28VOC%29%2C_Hoorn.jpg/500px-17th_century_plaque_to_Dutch_East_India_Company_%28VOC%29%2C_Hoorn.jpg)
A 17th-century plaque to the [Dutch] United East India Company, the VOC, in Hoorn
The return of the second Asia expedition of Jacob van Neck in 1599 by Cornelis Vroom