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John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
As Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, Coen was destined to become his lifelong adversary.
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 1681 the directorship was taken over by the recklessly aggressive Sir Josiah Child, who had started his career supplying beer to the navy in Portsmouth, and who was described by the diarist John Evelyn as ‘an overgrown and suddenly monied man … most sordidly avaricious’.81
William Dalrymple • The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
Alexander Rae, the town's founder, was murdered in his buggy by members of the Molly Maguires on October 17, 1868, during a trip between Centralia and Mount Carmel.[13] Three men were eventually convicted of his death and were hung in the county seat of Bloomsburg, on March 25, 1878.
Several other murders and incidents of arson also took place duri... See more
Several other murders and incidents of arson also took place duri... See more
David DeKok • Centralia, Pennsylvania
Edmund Scot who came aboard from the Bantam factory. His ‘extraordinarie