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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 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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    The Mississippi River is the primary river, and second-longest river, of the largest drainage basin in the United States. From its traditional source...
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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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    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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