SO482 Bonhomme Richard Project The East India Companies The joyous return of the second Dutch voyage to the East Indies, 1599. SO482 Bonhomme Richard Project The East India Companies No trade without war, no war without trade. A Dutch land-sea force invades the spice-rich Moluccan island of Tidore in 1604, blowing up two large Portuguese ships and storming the Portuguese fortress. SO482 Bonhomme Richard Project The East India Companies The Battle of Bantam (on todays Java), 30 December Five Dutch ships defeated 30 Portuguese ships and galleys. SO482 Bonhomme Richard Project The East India Companies Louis XIV giving patent letters to the directors that officially established the French East India Company in August 1664. SO482 Bonhomme Richard Project The East India Companies Arms of the La Compagnie des Indes or French East India Company. SO482 Bonhomme Richard Project The East India Companies The port of Lorient as it appeared in 1690. SO482 Bonhomme Richard Project The East India Companies European settlements in India showing the principal French outposts in Chanderagar (near Calcutta) and Pondicherry on the southeast coast. SO482 Bonhomme Richard Project The East India Companies This map shows the routes typically followed by French East Indiamen during the early and mid 18 th century. SO482 Bonhomme Richard Project The East India Companies French India in the 1740s and 50s. During the Seven Years War of they were effectively ousted from the sub-continent by the British.