1. SO482 – Bonhomme Richard Project The East India Companies The joyous return of the second Dutch voyage to the East Indies, 1599.

2. SO482 – Bonhomme Richard Project The East India Companies “No trade without war, no war without trade.” A Dutch land-sea force invades the spice-rich Moluccan island of Tidore in 1604, blowing up two large Portuguese ships and storming the Portuguese fortress.

3. SO482 – Bonhomme Richard Project The East India Companies The Battle of Bantam (on today’s Java), 30 December 1601. Five Dutch ships defeated 30 Portuguese ships and galleys.

4. SO482 – Bonhomme Richard Project The East India Companies Louis XIV giving patent letters to the directors that officially established the French East India Company in August 1664.

5. SO482 – Bonhomme Richard Project The East India Companies Arms of the La Compagnie des Indes or French East India Company.

6. SO482 – Bonhomme Richard Project The East India Companies The port of Lorient as it appeared in 1690.

7. SO482 – Bonhomme Richard Project The East India Companies European settlements in India showing the principal French outposts in Chanderagar (near Calcutta) and Pondicherry on the southeast coast.

8. SO482 – Bonhomme Richard Project The East India Companies This map shows the routes typically followed by French East Indiamen during the early and mid 18 th century.

9. SO482 – Bonhomme Richard Project The East India Companies French India in the 1740s and ‘50s. During the Seven Years War of 1756-63 they were effectively ousted from the sub-continent by the British.