Three ships belonging to this group were sunk during their disastrous attempt to interfere in the Trinh-Nguyen war in Vietnam.
Three ships belonging to this group were sunk during their disastrous attempt to interfere in the Trinh-Nguyen war in Vietnam. This group fought two wars with China, losing the Battle of Liaoluo Bay and being expelled from the Pengui Islands in a long war in the 1620s. This group acquired Galle in 1640 to end a cinnamon monopoly. This group's Painan Treaty allowed it to monopolize the gold trade and gradually displace the Aceh Sultanate; earlier, this group caused a furor in Britain by perpetrating the Amboina Massacre. This group was permitted to maintain a settlement on the artificial island of Dejima, which controlled the sole outside access to Japan during the Tokugawa shogunate. This group founded what is now Jakarta under the name Batavia. For 10 points, name this first stock-issuing entity and first multinational corporation in world history, which colonized Indonesia and sent profits back to the staadtholders of the United Republic.
Three ships belonging to this group were sunk during their disastrous attempt to interfere in the Trinh-Nguyen war in Vietnam.
Dutch East India Company