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The Dutch West India Company or WIC (Dutch: Westindische Compagnie) Dutch pronunciation: [ʋɛstˈɪndisə kɔmpɑˈɲi] was a chartered company of Dutch merchants as well as foreign investors, formally known as GWC (Geoctrooieerde Westindische Compagnie; English: Chartered West India Company).
Dutch West India Company, 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.
May 21, 2018 · The Dutch West India Company received its first charter from the States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands on 3 June 1621 for trade and colonization in Africa and the Americas (along the Atlantic coast from Newfoundland to the Strait of Magellan as well as on the Pacific coast).
The Dutch East India (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, or VOC) and West India (West-Indische Compagnie, or WIC) Companies are usually considered to have been the most important instruments of the early Dutch expansion overseas.
Timeline, West India Company's First Decade, 1620-1630. The decade from 1620 to 1630 was one of extraordinary experimentation and activity for the Dutch abroad. The Dutch would outfit numerous fleets to the Americas and Asia, and the West India Company began to test what its carefully collected capital might accomplish.
Mar 31, 2017 · This holds even stronger for the VOC's West-Indian counterpart, the West India Company (WIC). This company was even more invested in military rivalry between European Atlantic empires, a competition that centred on the inherently violent trans-Atlantic slave trade and the maintenance of control over slave societies.
