Chapter 8, Captain and East India Company Commander Joseph Haddock
For the full story of this pictured incident, turn to Chapter 8.
In the 17th century, the trade of the English East India Company (EIC) was mostly focused on Surat, a textile center on India’s northwestern coast. The company’s factory (trading post) is shown here about 1680. Naval Captain and later EIC Commander Joseph Haddock (c.1642–98) made his first voyage to Surat in 1681. In later voyages to India and China, Haddock would deliver money, lead, and soldiers to English outposts and transport pepper, cinnamon, cotton cloth, and pigments back to England, often encountering extreme danger at sea. The English East India Company (EIC) trading post at Surat, India, c. 1680 from British Merchant Adventurers by Maurice Collis, 1942, Alamy