The arms of the British South Africa Company

A chartered company is an association formed by investors or shareholders for the purpose of trade, exploration and colonisation. Typically, these companies were formed from the sixteenth century onwards by groups of European investors to underwrite and profit from the exploration of Africa, India, the Caribbean and North America, usually under the patronage of one state, which issued its charter, from the government's point of view as a form of indirect rule (private initiative where it could have been difficult to find the necessary resources; some also practiced 'true' indirect rule internally, via traditional rulers, notably princely states as in British india). A shareholder or stockholder is an individual or company (including a corporation), that legally owns one or more shares of stock in a joint stock company. ... Exploration is the act of searching or traveling for the purpose of discovery, e. ... Colonisation (or colonization) is the act where life forms move into a distant area where their kind is sparse or not yet existing at all and set up new settlements in the area. ... This article is about the continent. ... Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. ... The Caribbean, (Spanish: Caribe; French: Caraïbe or more commonly Antilles; Dutch: Cariben or Caraïben, or more commonly Antillen) or the West Indies, is a group of islands and countries which are in or border the Caribbean Sea which lies on the Caribbean Plate. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the... Indirect rule is a type of European colonial policy as practiced by the British Empire, in which the traditional local power structure, or at least part of it, is incorporated into the colonial administrative structure. ... A princely state is any state under the reign of a prince, both terms being taken in the broad sense. ...

Chartered companies were usually formed, incorporated and legitimised under a royal or, in republics, an equivalent government charter. This document set out the terms under which the company could trade; defined its boundaries of influence, and described its rights and responsibilities. A Royal Charter is a charter given by a monarch to legitimize an incorporated body, such as a city, company, university or such. ... A charter is a document bestowing certain rights on a town, city, university, land or institution; sometimes used as a loan of money. ...

For example, the charter of the British South Africa Company, given by Queen Victoria, allowed the company to: The British South Africa Company (BSAC) was established by Cecil Rhodes, receiving a royal charter in 1889. ... Victoria Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and Empress of India from 1 January 1877 until her death. ...

• Treat with African rulers such as King Lobengula
• To form banks
• To own, manage and grant or distribute land
• To raise its own police force (the British South Africa Police).

In return, the British South Africa Company agreed to develop the territory it controlled; to respect existing African laws; to allow free trade within its territory and to respect all religions. Lobengula (d. ... The British South Africa Police (BSAP) was a regimented police force which operated in Britains Southern African territories such as Northern Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia. ...

Chartered companies in many cases benefited from the trade monopolies (such as the English Royal African Company, which held a monopoly on negro slaving from 1672 to 1698). Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the British Isles Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001 Census) – Density Ranked 1st UK... The Royal African Company was a slaving company set up by the Stuart family and City of London merchants once the former retook the English throne in 1660. ... The Buxton Memorial Fountain, celebrating the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834, London. ... Events England, France, Munster and Cologne invade the United Provinces, therefore this name is know as ´het rampjaar´ (the disaster year) in the Netherlands. ... Events January 4 - Palace of Whitehall in London is destroyed by fire. ...

In order to carry out their many tasks, not just economical but even essentially government core business, such as security and defense, some were be allowed to become regular states within the state, in the case of the major companies chatered by great naval powers (such as the British HEIC and Dutch VOIC) with (para-)military and naval forces of their own that dwarfed even the average European state's strong arm, and with adequate funds to buy the best men and equipment.

More chartered companies were formed during the late nineteenth century Scramble for Africa with the purpose of seizing, colonising and administering the last 'virgin' African territories, but these were generally less profitable than earlier trading companies. The last chartered company to administer territory directly in Africa was the Companhia de Moçambique in Portuguese East Africa (now Mozambique), which only handed over rule of the colonies of Manica and Sofala to the Portuguese crown's colonial government in 1942. The Scramble for Africa was the period between the 1880s and the start of World War I, when colonial empires in Africa proliferated more rapidly than anywhere else on the globe. ... Mozambique is a country in Southern Africa, bordering South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. ... Categories: Stub | Provinces of Mozambique ... Categories: Stub | Provinces of Mozambique ... This article is about the year. ...

Notable chartered companies and their abbreviations/ years of formation

British crown charters

• Muscovy Company (1555)
• Spanish Company (1577)
• Eastland Company (1579)
• Turkey Company (1581)
• Morocco Company (1588)
• East India Company (HEIC, became the largest colonial empire in the world) (1600)
• Levant Company (merger of the Turkey and Venetian Companies) (1605}
• Virginia Company (1606)
• French Company (1609)
• Massachusetts Bay Company (1629)
• Royal West Indian Company (1664–74)
• Hudson's Bay Company Canada (1670)
• Royal African Company (1672)
• Greenland Company (1693)
• South Sea Company (1711)
• British North Borneo Company (1881)
• Royal Niger Company (1886)
• British South Africa Company (1889)

Ivan IV of Russia demonstrates his treasures to the English ambassador (1875) Muscovy Company (also called Russian Company or Muscovy Trading Company, Polish Kompania Moskiewska, Russian: Московская компания), was a trading company chartered in 1555. ... East India Company was the name of several historic European companies chartered with the monopoly of trading with Asia for their respective countries. ... The Levant Company was formed 1581 after London merchants petitioned Queen Elizabeth I for a charter to begin trading in the Levant exclusively in 1580. ... The 1606 grants by James I to the London and Plymouth companies. ... The Massachusetts Bay Colony (sometimes called by the name Massachusetts Bay Company, for the institution that founded it) was the direct predecessor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and then the state of Massachusetts. ... The Hudsons Bay Company (HBC) TSX: HBC is the oldest corporation in Canada (and the second oldest in North America) and is one of the oldest in the world still in existence. ... The Royal African Company was a slaving company set up by the Stuart family and City of London merchants once the former retook the English throne in 1660. ... Hogarthian image of the South Sea Bubble by Edward Matthew Ward, Tate Gallery More well known than The South Sea Company is perhaps the South Sea Bubble (1711 - September 1720) which is the name given to the economic bubble that occurred through overheated speculation in the company shares during 1720. ... The British North Borneo Company was assigned to administer North Borneo (todays Sabah in Malaysia) in August 1881 and North Borneo became a protectorate of the British Empire with internal affairs administered by the company until 1946 when it became the colony of British North Borneo. ... The Royal Niger Company was a mercantile company chartered by the British government in the nineteenth century. ... The British South Africa Company (BSAC) was established by Cecil Rhodes, receiving a royal charter in 1889. ...

French

• Hudson's Bay Company

Iberian

• Companhia de Moçambique (1888)
• Companhia do Niassa (1891)
• Santo Domingo Company (1698)

Low Countries

• Dutch East India Company (VOIC) (1602)
• Dutch West India Company (1621)
• Ostend Company (Habsburg's outhern Netherlands, in India)
• Hudson's Bay Company

Dutch colonial possessions, with the Dutch East India Company possessions marked in a paler green, surrounding the Indian Ocean plus Saint Helena in the mid-Atlantic. ... Dutch West India Company (Dutch: West-Indische Compagnie or WIC) was a company of Dutch merchants. ... The Ostend Company was a private company established in 1717 to trade with the Indies. ...

Other

• Levant Company (1581)
• German East Africa Company (1884)
• New Sweden Company - only 29 March 1638 - 15 Sep 1655 the Swedish colony New Sweden [Nya Sverige], absorbed by the Dutch, in present Delaware (16 )

The Levant Company was formed 1581 after London merchants petitioned Queen Elizabeth I for a charter to begin trading in the Levant exclusively in 1580. ... The flag of the German East Africa Company The German East Africa Company (German: Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Gesellschaft) was an organisation founded by Karl Peters (with imperial backing from Otto von Bismarck) on April 2, 1885 to govern German East Africa (modern Tanzania). ...

Sources and References

• Chartered companies
• Colonial flags of Mozambique
• Ferguson, Niall, 2003. Empire—How Britain Made the Modern World, Allan Lane, London, United Kingdom.
• Hudson's Bay Company
• Ross, R., 1999. A Concise History of South Africa, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
• WorldStatesmen

See also

• British colonization of the Americas

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