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Signed, Sealed, and Undelivered: The Voyage of the Santa Catharina and the Global Microhistory of the Indian Ocean
Signed, Sealed, and Undelivered: The Voyage of the Santa Catharina and the Global Microhistory of the Indian Ocean
About the Event: In the early hours of the morning of April 30, 1748, at the height of the War of the Austrian Succession, a British naval squadron intercepted a merchant vessel called the Santa Catharina in the Indian Ocean on its return voyage from the port of Basra in the Persian Gulf to the […]