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East India Company Restaurant at the intersection of Robertson Road and Old Richmond Road. The former Hartin's Hotel, currently the East India Company Restaurant and Conference Hall, is a historic building in the Bells Corners neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
East India Company Restaurant at the intersection of Robertson Road and Old Richmond Road. The oldest buildings in Bells Corners are the former Hartin's Hotel, built after the fire in 1870 on the site of Robert Malcomson's Tavern, and the former Drummond Methodist Church, built in 1898 from stone taken from the old Union Church. [18]
The East India Company (EIC) [a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South Asia and Southeast Asia), and later with East Asia.
Perates - site where the East Indiaman Earl Talbot wrecked on 22 October 1800 with the loss of all passengers and crew. Pisang or Pulau Pisang, ( 5°07′13″S 103°50′51″E / 5.120294°S 103.847637°E / -5.120294; 103.847637 ), an island off the south coast of Sumatra, between Benkulen and Bengkunat (Bencoomat
The Madras Army of the Honourable East India Company came into being through the need to protect the Company's commercial interests. These were mostly untrained guards, with only some bearing arms. The French attack and capture of Madras in 1746 forced the British hand. In 1757, the East India Company decided to raise well-trained military ...
Captain Locke returned fire, dismounting two guns on the privateer. The privateer approached to attempt to take David Scott by boarding, but when the French saw the troops on deck with muskets in hand, the privateer veered off and sailed away. British casualties consisted of one man wounded.
The company's powers were removed in 1858 after the Indian Mutiny, and the British Crown assumed direct control of India and monarch took the title of Emperor of India in 1876. During the British Raj , new medals and orders were established and were awarded for the services to the Crown and the Indian Empire by Europeans and Indians of British ...
English: Arms: Azure, three ships with three masts, rigged and under full sail, the sails, pennants and ensigns Argent, each charged with a cross Gules; on a chief of the second a pale quarterly Azure and Gules, on the 1st and 4th a fleur de lys, in the 2nd and 3rd a lion passant guardant Or, between two roses Gules, seeded Or, barbed Vert.