Its logo consisted of a large capital V, with a C and an O in either leg, and its flag colours would later be adapted by several countries.
Its logo consisted of a large capital V, with a C and an O in either leg, and its flag colours would later be adapted by several countries. A capital above the logo would indicate the origin of each of the six chambers composing it. Its decline, initiated after the loss of the battle of Colachel, was accelerated in the 1780s after an unsuccessful war with Great Britain, and it would be dissolved after bankrupty in 1800, 198 years after its foundation. In 1662, renegade Ming general Koxinga ousted it from Taiwan; however, elsewhere it would prove more successful: defeating the Portuguese in Ceylon gave it access to the lucrative cinnamon trade, and its firm holding of the Banda islands gave it a near monopoly on nutmeg. FTP, name this trading company that in 1619 established its capital in Batavia?
Its logo consisted of a large capital V, with a C and an O in either leg, and its flag colours would later be adapted by several countries.
{Dutch East India Company}