The Mississippi Company (French: Compagnie du Mississippi; founded 1684, named the Company of the West from 1717, and the Company of the Indies from 1719)...
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The Mississippi Land Company was a land company formed in 1763 following the British victory in the French and Indian War (1754–1763) in North America...
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John Law (economist) (category Scottish company founders)
was a fractional reserve bank. Law also set up and directed the Mississippi Company, funded by the Banque Royale. Its chaotic collapse has been compared...
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Mississippi (/ˌmɪsɪˈsɪpi/ MISS-iss-IP-ee) is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the...
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Laurel is a city in and the second county seat of Jones County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 17,161...
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Saint-Christophe 1627 Company of One Hundred Associates 1664 Compagnie de l'Occident 1717 Mississippi Company (Compagnie du Mississippi) 1635 Compagnie des...
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Mississippi Shipping Company (also called Delta Line) of New Orleans, Louisiana was a passenger and cargo steamship company founded in 1919. In 1961 officially...
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The Mississippi River is the primary river of the largest drainage basin in the United States. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern...
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Mississippi Power is an investor-owned electric utility and a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlanta-based Southern Company. Mississippi Power Company (MPC)...
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Keesler Federal Credit Union (Biloxi) MidSouth Rail Corporation (Jackson) Mississippi Power (Gulfport) Mossy Oak (West Point) Peavey Electronics (Meridian)...
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Oglethorpe was an early backer of the French Mississippi Company, and recruited colonists to settle the lower Mississippi region. The enterprise was expected to...
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East India Company French East India Company Danish West India Company Hudson's Bay Company Mississippi Company South Sea Company Ostend Company Swedish...
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Bradley County, Arkansas (section Mississippi Company)
Indies. All were known as the Mississippi Company. The Mississippi Company had a monopoly on trade and mineral wealth. The Company boomed on paper. Law was...
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1720s, Cantillon speculated in, and later helped fund, John Law's Mississippi Company, from which he acquired great wealth. However, his success came at...
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Square. In 1718, there were only 700 Europeans in Louisiana. The Mississippi Company arranged for ships to bring 800 more, who landed in Louisiana in...
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The 9th Mississippi Infantry Regiment was a Confederate infantry regiment from Mississippi. Organized from a group of volunteer companies at Pensacola...
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The Virginia Company was an English trading company chartered by King James I on 10 April 1606 with the objective of colonizing the eastern coast of America...
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Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie Mississippi Company Muscovy Company North West Company Northern Traders Company Northwest Cameroon Company Olyphant & Co. Palmis...
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County, Mississippi, United States. Founded in 1860, the population was 37,923 at the 2020 census. It is the 7th most populous city in Mississippi and is...
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county seat of Adams County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 14,520 at the 2020 census. Located on the Mississippi River across from Vidalia...
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155th Armored Brigade Combat Team (category 1951 establishments in Mississippi)
McComb, Mississippi Detachment 1,Tylertown, Mississippi Company A, Biloxi, Mississippi Company B, Poplarville, Mississippi Company C, Kiln, Mississippi Forward...
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Cadence Bank (redirect from Bank of Mississippi)
Illinois. In 1876, Raymond Trice and Company received a charter to create a bank in its hardware store in Verona, Mississippi. In 1886, the banking operation...
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Jones County is in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 67,246. Its county seats are Laurel...
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The University of Mississippi (byname Ole Miss) is a public research university in Oxford, Mississippi, United States, with a medical center in Jackson...
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economic bubbles, or financial manias: the South Sea Company bubble of 1711–1720, the Mississippi Company bubble of 1719–1720, and the Dutch tulip mania of...
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American Civil War. The 8th Regiment was composed of volunteer companies from Mississippi assembled in the fall of 1861. The Regiment fought in many battles...
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near Augusta, Georgia. Southern Company's three retail operating companies — Alabama Power, Georgia Power, and Mississippi Power — cover 120,000 square miles...
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bridge across the Mississippi River in the United States between Keokuk, Iowa, and Hamilton, Illinois, just downstream of Mississippi Lock and Dam number...
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Leland is a city in Washington County, Mississippi, United States. It is located within the Mississippi Delta, on the banks of Deer Creek. The population...
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co-county seat of Harrison County, Mississippi, United States. It is the second-most populous city in Mississippi, after Jackson, and part of the Gulfport–Biloxi...
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