The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
They had also, two years previously, felt no compunction about murdering an objectionable Dutch commander and imprisoning his colleagues.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
William Methwold,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
it would be his two brothers, Henry and David, who would open up the Moluccas. Both were now serving under Lancaster; and both would eventually join brother John in an eastern grave.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
in 1625 a Dutch fleet from the East was allowed to sail quietly past Dover in full view of the Royal Navy.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
the Portuguese had erected an impressive fortress whence troops could be dispatched north to the clove kingdoms of Ternate and Tidore or south to the nutmeg isles of Banda.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
the Edward Bonaventure.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
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the search for the Spice Islands threw up the discovery of America, of the Pacific archipelagos, of sub-Saharan Africa, and of the Indian and south-east Asian coastlines. Knowledge of, and eventually dominion over these ‘new worlds’ would follow.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
The men were habitually underselling their chief factors by ‘up to 50 per cento’.