Giles Milton

Quite revolting.

Now, I have to say that the point of this, this is not just gratuitous to talk about this violence, the point of it is that this caused an absolute

absolute outrage when it reached England.

And in fact, John Dryden, who obviously famous poet, one of his more famous pieces was a play called The Massacre of Amboina, which really struck a chord with the English public at the time.

And this gave rise to huge anti-Dutch sentiment in England.

Well, the question is, what can they actually do?

Because the Dutch now have complete control of the Bander Islands.

Short of sending an absolutely enormous armada out to the Spiceries, to the Spice Islands, the English can't really get back their beloved run island.

And as Willie will be able to tell the next chapter of the story,

All attentions now begin to turn towards India.

India becomes the great goal of the East India Company.

By default only.

Throughout this whole period, there are endless Anglo-Dutch wars going on.

They're extremely complicated.

There's wars, there are peace treaties, there's wars again.

But of course, as Anita, you mentioned, the Dutch have formed a colony, New Amsterdam, which is essentially Manhattan around there.

And this is their toehold in North America.

Now, at one point, at one of the many, many peace treaties, run is given, delivered back to the English under the terms of the treaty.

But the Dutch refused to give it up.

And the English really are really fed up by now with the Dutch.