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The captain of the Globe, Anthony Hippon, had died as soon as the ship reached Patani.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
“Their stated object was a crusade against the infidel,” wrote Sa’id Mubarak Shah, “their real one was plunder.
William Dalrymple • The Last Mughal
As a consequence, in 1686 a considerable fleet sailed from London to Bengal with 19 warships, 200 cannons and 600 soldiers. ‘It will,’ Child wrote, ‘become us to Seize what we cann & draw the English sword.’
William Dalrymple • The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
An English ship had at last entered Hirado but it turned out that her crew was Dutch; she had been taken in the Spice Islands. More disgrace.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
of white contact to be perhaps fourteen million.
James W. Loewen • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
harangue.
John Hemming • The Conquest of the Incas
the largest longship ever found—thirty-two metres long, with a single-watch crew of eighty that could have been doubled for war. Dating to the early eleventh century, it is of the dimensions the sagas give for the highest rank of royal warships.