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	EAST INDIA COMPANY - Online Information article about EAST INDIA COMPANY
		The immediate result was that the English company tacitly admitted the Dutch claims to a monopoly of the trade in the Far East, and confined their operations to the mainland of India and the adjoining countries.
		Under this award the company was to lend the nation £3,200,000, and its exclusive privileges were to cease at three years' notice after this amount had been repaid.
		In 1712 an act was passed continuing the privileges of the company even after their fund should be redeemed; in 1730 the charter was prolonged until 1766, and in 1742 the term was extended until 1783 in return for the loan of a million.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /DRO_ECG/EAST_INDIA_COMPANY.html (2598 words)

	OSTEND - LoveToKnow Article on OSTEND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		(Flemish and French Ostende), a town of Belgium in the province of West Flanders.
		Apart from these docks Ostend has a very considerable passenger and provision traffic with England, and is the headquarters of the Belgian fishing fleet, estimated to employ 400 boats and 1600 men and boys.
		Ostend is in direct railway communication with Brussels, Cologne and Berlin.
	98.1911encyclopedia.org /O/OS/OSTEND.htm (266 words)

	EAST INDIA COMPANY - LoveToKnow Article on EAST INDIA COMPANY
		The English East India Company was founded at the end of the 16th century in order to compete with the Dutch merchants, who had obtained a practical monopoly of the trade Bag ish with the Spice Islands, and had raised the price of India Co. pepper from 3S.
		The old company subscribed 315,000 and became the dominant factor in the new body; while at the same time it retained its charter for three years, its factories, forts and assured position in India.
		The rivalry between the two companies continued both in England and in India, until they were finally amalgamated by a tripartite indenture between the companies and Queen Anne (1702), which was ratified under the Godolphin Award (1708).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /E/EA/EAST_INDIA_COMPANY.htm (1583 words)

	OSTEND COMPANY - Online Information article about OSTEND COMPANY
		December 1722 letters patent were granted by which the company of Ostend received for the See also:
		At the outset the prospects of the company appeared to be most encouraging, but its promoters had not reckoned with the jealousy and hostility of the Dutch and English.
		commerce with Austria and recognized the company of Ostend.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /ORC_PAI/OSTEND_COMPANY.html (651 words)

	James Mill, History of British India, vol. 3 (1826): The Online Library of Liberty
		The judges, in these tribunals, were servants of the Company, appointed by the Governor and Council, and holding their offices during pleasure; the rule of judgment was the supposed usage of the country, and the discretion of the court; and the mode of procedure was summary.
		The Company were to have the charge of erecting and maintaining the forts and establishments abroad; and for this, and for other expenses, attending what was called "the enlargement and preservation of the trade," it was proposed that they should receive a duty of one per cent.
		The Company seem to have been extremely anxious to avoid a renewal of the discussion on the utility or fitness of the monopoly, and, for that purpose, to forestal the excitement of the public attention by the approach to the conclusion of the privileged term.
	oll.libertyfund.org /Texts/MillJames0324/BritishIndia/0381-03_Bk.html (15546 words)

	Ostend East India compny, Paulus Swaen Old maps Internet Auction, antique maps, globes, atlases.
		This was a thorn in the side of the older rival companies, such as the Dutch VOC, the English EIC and the French CFT.
		In May 1727 the charter of the company was suspended for seven years and in March 1731 the second treaty of Vienna ordered the definitive abolition.
		The small Ostend shipyards at first were not able to produce vessels of that size and so the Ostenders were obliged to look for their ships abroad.
	www.swaen.com /ostend.html (1095 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Netherlands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ostend was recaptured from Holland after a three-years' siege which claimed the attention of all Europe, and a truce of twelve years (1609-21) made with the United Provinces was employed to the greatest advantage.
		This company, which was enthusiastically hailed by the public, was of immense benefit in the beginning, and promised an era of commercial prosperity.
		His cowardly concessions were of no avail, and at his death in 1740 his daughter was obliged to undertake a long and costly war to maintain her inheritance and Belgium, invaded and conquered by France in 1745, was not restored to the empress till the Peace of Aachen in 1748.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10759a.htm (5293 words)

	OOSTENDE - HISTORY - DESCRIPTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ostend is situated on the North Sea coast, approximately midway along the 40-mile Belgian coastline stretching from De Panne via Nieuwpoort – Westende - Middelkerke - Oostende - Den Haan - Blankenberge to Knokke.
		Ostend is the only Belgian coastal resort that is as lively in the summer as in the winter.
		Ostend is the carnival city par excellence of the Belgian coast.
	www.oostende.net /E/oostende/omschrijfe.html (683 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Ostend Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ostend Company was formed according to the idea of the emperor of Austria for commercial operations in India after the Treaty of Utrecht.
		The company got a parwana from murshid quli khan and established a factory at Bankibazar (modern Ichapur) and fortified it with cannons.
		The commerce of the Ostend Company continued despite the hostility of the English and the Dutch.
	banglapedia.net /HT/O_0048.HTM (1000 words)

	Ostend Airport / Arms' smuggling
		Such companies are extremely mobile and disappear as swiftly as they have been installed, possibly reappearing under another name to carry on with their evil activities.
		The company was co-owned by a Liberian citizen and a native of Kinshasa.
		The company was founded in 1995 and had its main office lodged in a totally new building at the end of the motorway from Brussels to Ostend.
	www.ruudleeuw.com /ostend.htm (3797 words)

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		The company was founded in 1995 and had its main office lodged in a brand-new building, called Jet Center, at the end of the motorway from Brussels to Ostend.
		When this became known in Ostend and leaflets [23] with the names of those involved in illegal operations began appearing in mail boxes, Bout and his company Air Cess disappeared from Belgium, according to the director of IPIS and UN expert on illegal arms trade, Johan Peleman.
		Ostend Airport seems unable or supposedly unwilling to finish with arms transport connected companies nor has efficient action to clean up the mess been undertaken by Belgian authorities, so that one could suspect some complicity of Belgian politics in sustaining arms traffic organizers at the airport.
	users.skynet.be /cleanostend/clos_en.htm (10265 words)

	OSTEND COMPANY - LoveToKnow Article on OSTEND COMPANY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The success of the Dutch, English and French East India Companies led the merchants and shipowners of Ostend to desire to establish direct commercial relations with the Indies.
		A private company was accordingly formed in 1717 and some ships sent to the East.
		Some success attended these early efforts, but the jealousy of the neighboring nations was shown by the seizure of an Ostend
	99.1911encyclopedia.org /O/OS/OSTEND_COMPANY.htm (394 words)

	ostend
		Ostend (Oostende in Dutch) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders.
		The municipality comprises the city of Ostend proper and the towns of Mariakerke, Stene and Zandvoorde.
		On January 1st, 2000 Ostend had a total population of 67,279 (32,248 males and 35,031 females).
	www.fact-library.com /ostend.html (92 words)

	GANGSTERS INCORPORATED - VICTOR BOUT
		The company had a dificult start when their main customer, the Afghani Northern Alliance, was pushed out of power by the Taliban.
		His United Arab Emirates company was also founded in 1995 and, based first in Sharjah and later in 2001 in Ajman, would be his main base of operations.
		Bout's empire was a maze of people, companies, planes and routes it was impossible to check where and when Bout's planes flew and which planes belonged to him.
	gangstersinc.tripod.com /VictorBout.html (1252 words)

	Making a Killing - The Center for Public Integrity
		He ran a maze of individuals and companies, which employed some 300 people and owned and operated 40 to 60 aircraft, including the largest private fleet of Antonov cargo planes in the world, according to an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
		He established a veritable web of companies, some of which he ran, some of which were run by former employees and associates of his, obscuring his involvement in the arms trade.
		On May 28, 1998, he registered another company, Centrafrican Airlines, in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, which was licensed to operate domestic flights two months later.
	www.publicintegrity.org /bow/report.aspx?aid=157&sid=100 (5752 words)

	Map..... Paulus Swaen Old maps Internet Auction, antique maps, globes, atlases.
		It was to be the end of the 17th century or even the beginning of the 18th before all the West European maritime powers were represented by companies on the new trade routes to the Far East, to which the then all-embracing term East Indies was applied.
		The Swedish East India Company, established 1731 on the initiative of private merchants but with the caution of the central government, profited from the vain attempts of building new companies in some countries and from the short lived companies' existence in other as well.
		Both the Swedish and reformed Danish company were profiting from the vacuum created by the disappearance of the Austrian East India Company or commonly called Ostend Company because based in Ostend, itself dissolved under pressure from the great powers.
	www.swaen.com /trade.html (488 words)

	Dutch West India Company -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		byname of West India Company, Dutch West-Indische Compagnie Dutch trading company, founded in 1621 mainly to carry on economic warfare against Spain and Portugal by striking at their colonies in the West Indies and South America and on the west coast of Africa.
		Dutch trading company, founded in 1621 mainly to carry on economic warfare against Spain and Portugal by striking at their colonies in the West Indies and South America and on the west coast of Africa.
		It enjoyed certain rights and privileges and was bound by certain obligations, under a special charter granted to it by the sovereign authority of the state, such charter defining and limiting those rights, privileges, and obligations and the localities in which they were to be exercised.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9031618 (860 words)

	FRANCOIS MUSIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		There is a far more interesting old trawler afloat in Ostend then the praised and abused AMANDINE which is now a proud exhibit ashore near the Ostend railway station.
		She measured a good 154 GRT and fished for the NV Motorvisserij in Ostend from the year she was built until 1956.
		The FRANCOIS MUSIN is a sistership to the O.304 LAERMANS and the sixth trawler the Ostend based company was having built since the end of WW II.
	users.telenet.be /urbiehome/FRANCOIS.html (537 words)

	WWW transportation Company union - Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ostend Airport is the ideal gateway to the rest of Europe.
		Companies located in Ostend or using the facilities of Ostend Airport have the privilege of being in the heart of Europe with excellent connections to all major centres such as Paris, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt.
		Pilot Air Freight is a full service transportation and logistics company with 98 offices throughout the US and Canada and a worldwide network of overseas agents, offering global coverage 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
	way.utairway.com /Company-16.htm (1054 words)

	History of BKS
		During the next couple of months, the DC3 flew charters around the Mediterranean and ventured afar a field as Aden and Singapore.The DC3 was sold by BKS in April and with the proceeds, two DC3s were purchased from the RAF.
		The sister Company, BKS Engineering Limited was formed in January 1952 and was responsible for the high standard of maintenance applied to the BKS fleet from the start of the Company's services.
		This petition was heard in the High Court on March 13 1962, but for fortunately for B.K.S. the petition was opposed by a group of creditors for £370,000, and as a result the petition was dismissed.
	website.lineone.net /~biggles200/History.htm (2602 words)

	Ostend : Attractions \| Frommers.com
		A reclining statue of a large and generously endowed nude woman, just outside the town's Léopold Park (which has a floral clock comprised of 20,000 flowering plants), is formally entitled De Zee (The Sea), but she is known locally as Dikke Mathille (Fat Matilda).
		Launched in 1961, she was the last Ostend trawler to work the rich fishing grounds off Iceland, and now sits in a dry basin with a plastic "sea," as a museum of the history and traditions of Belgium's Icelandic fishery.
		The Oostendse Compagnie (Ostend Company) was founded in 1722, but survived the hostility of its two powerful rivals only until 1727.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/ostend/3098010029.html (972 words)

	Chinese Export Armorial Plate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Colin Campbell had fled from England in 1723 having being deeply involved in - and lost his fortune and apparently many of his friend's - in the "South Sea Bubble".
		After a period as a director of the Austrian East India Company in Ostend, he went to Gothenburg where he as the largest shareholder together with Nicholas Sahlgren and Henrik Koenig became one of the founding fathers of the Swedish East India Company.
		While Secretary of the State for Foreign Affairs Daniel Nicholas von Höpkens had already been granted a charter for the founding of a Swedish East India Company already in the 1720's but was probably unable to raise the necessary capital.
	www.gotheborg.com /qa/exparm_hopkens_239.shtml (327 words)

	Ostend -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		It lies along the North Sea and at the end of the Ghent-Brugge Canal.
		trading company that operated from the Austrian Netherlands from 1719 to 1731.
		Founded by the Holy Roman emperor Charles VI, it represented an attempt to cash in on the riches being won by the Dutch and English East India companies and stemmed from Charles VI's awareness of the importance of foreign trade and the recent acquisition (1714) by Austria of the port of...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9057581?tocId=9057581 (580 words)

	ostend - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Ostend : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
		Ostend : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		OSTEND : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?loc=rescb&w=ostend (164 words)

	John Drury Rare Books Stock Selection - 14654 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		'To doubt that this new Company established in Flanders will prejudice the trade both of Great Britain and Holland, would be to arraign the sense and judgement of the British Parliament as well as the States General.' [p.28].
		The Ostend Company was established on December 19, 1722, and was granted a charter for a term of thirty years beginning July 20, 1723.
		In 1732 the Charter was withdrawn, however, and the Company was eventually liquidated in 1774.
	www.btinternet.com /~johndrury/stock/14654.htm (254 words)

	trading companies - Best Site About trading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Oriental Trading Company carries a vast selection of value-priced novelties, toys, party supplies, favors, crafts, decorations, treats, and gifts for every season and occasion.
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	WHKMLA : History of the Austrian Netherlands, 1713-1740
		In 1722 an EAST INDIA COMPANY was established at OOSTENDE; Austrian diplomacy repeatedly attempted to have the Schelde blockade lifted.
		Here, unfortunately for the southern Netherlands, Habsburg dynasty interests outweighed those of the southern Netherlands; Austrian diplomacy had other priorities, never achieved the lifting of the blockade, and in 1731 cancelled the charter of the Oostende East India Company in return for recognition of the PRAGMATIC SANCTION by Great Britain and the Dutch Republic.
		Ostend Company, Governors of Banquibazar and Cobelon, 1719-1744, from World Statesmen by Ben Cahoon
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/lowcountries/austneth.html (525 words)

	WWW transportation airport company union - airport company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ostend Airport, ostend airport, belgium, Belgium, Belgique, België, aeroport, Aeroport, OSTEND AIRPORT, luchthaven, BELGIUM, belgium airport, airport ostend, oostende, luchthaven oostende, Ostend International Airport Company, aéroport,
		General information on the company, services, facilities, home airport and the country, Kyrgyzstan, and news.
		S.E.A, Società Esercizi Aeroportuali, a private company, was set up just under 50 years ago, in 1948; S.E.A. has legal status and its registered office is at Linate Airport, Milan.
	way.utairway.com /airport_company.htm (950 words)

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