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One Letter that Made an Empire

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Nov 17, 2023
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Sometime in the spring of 1583, an Englishman named John Newbery arrived in India with a letter from Elizabeth I to an Indian ruler. What happened of him after, is a tad fuzzy but it’s assumed he was robbed and killed on his way back. Newbery wasn’t alone. His expedition carried two merchants named Ralph Fitch and John Eldred, a jeweler named William Le…

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