By Admiral Ravindra C Wijegunaratne WV, RWP& Bar, RSP, VSV, USP, NI (M) (Pakistan), ndc, psn, Bsc (Hons) (War Studies) ...

This is the reason, which led the Dutch, to incorporate the Dutch East India Trading Company on the 20th of March 1602; and soon afterwards, within a month and ten days; on the 2nd of May 1602, the ...