Major 19th century businesses founded with Rothschild family capital include:* Alliance Assurance (1824) (now Royal & SunAlliance);* Chemin de Fer du Nord (1845)* The Rio Tinto mining company (1873) (from the 1880s onwards, the Rothschilds had full control of Rio Tinto)* Eramet (1880)* Imerys (1880)* De Beers (1888)The family funded Cecil Rhodes in the creation of the African colony of Rhodesia.
Основные виды деятельности, в которые вкладывали капитал Ротшильды включают: Alliance Assurance (1824) (сейчас Royal & SunAlliance); Chemin de Fer du Nord(1845); Rio Tinto Group (1873); Société Le Nickel (1880) (сейчас Eramet); и Imétal (1962) (сейчас Imerys).