Golden Age of Invention: Knights of the Caribbean
In researching the relative strengths of English and Dutch merchants, I was surprised to learn just how many other European states also tried to get a slice of the seventeenth century’s intercontinental trade.
The Danes, for example, had an East India Company of their own. In 1620 they reached Sri Lanka, where they negotiated a treaty with the local rule…
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