The Dutch East India Company ship, the Zuytdorp, likely crashed into the shore of Western Australia in 1712 due to a storm and not bad navigation, new research has found. In an article published ...
Inland navigation on Gangetic rivers was a lengthy and risky business — until the arrival of William Tolly, an officer of the ...
Thanks to the East India Company, exotic goods like spices from Indonesia, tea and porcelain from China, became part of everydaylife. Every year, huge merchant ships of the East India Company ...