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... A CCORDING to Sir John Malcolm, envoy of the East India Company to the Persian Shah Fath 'Ali in 1801- 2: 'When the king is seated in public, his sons, ministers, and courtiers, stand erect, with their hands crossed, and in the exact place of their rank ...
... men when the Dutch East India Company estab- MANDELA'S lished a colony at Cape Town in 1652 as a port of WALK: One of the call for ships bound for the East Indies? pieces of artwork Roger Young doffs his cap, figuratively speak- by Nelson Mandela ing ...
... Pluto’s ‘multinational’ Radical publisher Pluto is garnering broad interest in a book which compares the East India Company to today’s corporate leviathans such as Enron and Wal-Mart. The Corporation That Changed the World by Nick Robins, a City investment ...
... porcelain has had several definitions over the years. Some terms were Chinese Lowestoft, then China trade porcelain, East India Company porcelain and Nanking porcelain, among others. The principal decorative styles include 'lel 1 • - An Irish 18th century ...
... Indeed, for Europe, between I 7 4 1 and I 7 58, she was the Rhinoceros. She was bought as a two-year-old by a Dutch East India Company captain, Douwemout Van der Meer, and, for nearly two decades, they toured the courts and capitals of the Continent. ...
... William ja.nfine and James Matheson in 1832. The two men shipped their first consignment of tea into [ondomdwdcmiseof the East India Company just as Parliament was passing the Great Reform Act. However the ¢ y its real money selling opium to the Chinese. ...
... to track the birth of South Africa from its inception as a trading post and resupply point for the ships of the Dutch East India Company, right up to the present day realson Mandela for the majority of his confinement as a political prisoner. Perched in ...
... don’t want to be interested in them, they are weird people.’” The Burghers, descendants of merchants from the Dutch East India Company, had been jn decline long before Ceylon finally became Sri Lanka and completed their relegation to the backwaters of ...
... of the East India Company, to re-emerge from the dust of long neglected files, and even speak for themselves. Dash makes the personalities, such as Feringhee, the Errol Flynn of thugdom, and his nemesis, William Sleeman of the East India Company, the ...
... that it implies that it was probably Boswell himself who ordered the service from the China Traders in the Honourable East India Company. The service has an estimate of £6,000-£lO,OOO. For & number of years it was kept at Auchinleck House, Boswell's family ...
... riotous wedding of the Regimental Sergeant-Major. Bhurtpore li es in the hands of a would-be dynast, inimical to the East India Company, and after a useful reconnaissance by Hervey a major siege is started with all the complications and difficulties of ...
... As Noltie pursued Gibson doggedly through East India Company archives in London and Bombay and through Scots genealogical records, the only clues as to personality came from letters, often to Sir William Hooker at Kew, at that time the lynchpin of botanical ...