Ostend Company

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Was a chartered trading company in the Austrian Netherlands (modern-day Belgium) that briefly controlled territories in the East Indies.

Establishment

January 1723: Bankipur was an ancient village on the Hugli river located in what is now West Bengal, north of Barrackpore, a little north of Ishapore.

Chronology

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1. Conquests of Shahu I

Expansion during the rule of Shahu I in the Maratha Empire.

January 1734: In 1733 the British and Dutch convinced the Mughal general at Hugli to attack Bankipur. He attacked Bankipur and the garrison of only fourteen soldiers escaped and set sail for Europe.