English explorer Henry Hudson sailed up the river which now bears his name in search of the Northwest Passage for this company in 1609.
British East India Company
North West Company
Virginia Company
Dutch East India Company
Hudson`s Bay Company
Dutch East India Company.
Henry Hudson sailed for the Dutch East India Company in search of the Northwest Passage–a water route linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans–when he sailed up the present-day Hudson River in 1609. In 1610, he sailed for the English, discovering the bay which is named after him. The Dutch East India Company lasted from 1602 until 1798, whereupon its possessions were dissolved into the Dutch empire.
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