Giles Milton
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1,435 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 6d ago
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Their aracs run out.
There's no food.
They realise that, you know, they've got no alternative but to throw in the towel.
And that's what they do.
It's a desperately tragic situation.
Nathaniel...
Really, I think, inspired by patriotism.
I mean, in the letters that have survived, he talks about he's doing this for England, you know.
Extraordinary.
Very few people these days, I think, would lay down their lives for the flag of St George.
For Keir Starmer.
Exactly.
But that's precisely what he did.
Anyway, the men throw the towel.
And, you know, within a few days, the Dutch have taken over Run Island and they have got what they always wanted, which is the six bander islands under their firm control.
They have secured by doing this a monopoly over the global supply of nutmeg.
So we mentioned Jan Kern, the monstrous governor general of the Dutch East India Company.
He decides that there's to be no dealings with the head men of the Bander Islands.
There's to be no dealings with the local population.
They are simply to be exterminated.
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