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Englishman Nathaniel Courthope spent four years defending a tiny island's nutmeg from the Dutch
Tuesday October 19, 2021. 03:57 PM , from BoingBoing
In 1616, British officer Nathaniel Courthope was sent to a tiny island in the East Indies to contest a Dutch monopoly on nutmeg. He and his men would spend four years battling sickness, starvation, and enemy attacks to defend the island's bounty. — Read the rest
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