The ensign of the East India Company from 1707-1801. It has 13 stripes just like the American flag The East India Company (EIC), originally chartered as the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies, and more properly called the Honourable East India Company, was an English, and later (from 1707) British joint-stock company, formed to pursue trade with the East Indies but that ended up … Continue reading →