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Verhoeven said:
Just got a copy of a book on Jacob Eilbracht, my gran gran gran etc dad.
The book was called A lifetime in the service of the VOC. It covers his career from shipsboy to being the last real governor and opperkoopman (chief merchant) of the Dutch post at Coromandel (Bengals). He was also the last Grand Master of the Dutch Free masons on the East coast of India.
His son in law was actually the last governor, but at that time the entire operation in this area was already given up by the Dutch. The 4th Anglo Dutch war stripped most of the Dutch posts at the East coast of India. In the first years of the 19th century the last post was given up and handed to the English.

I still have letters written by Jacob.

A very interesting read about the final era of the VOC.

His son was sent back to the Republic when he was young and never saw his father again. He enlisted in the navy and became a lieutenant captain. As he did not want to serve the pro French government he and his family left for London. He joined the Dutch community there and was a deacon at the parish of Austin Friars in London (it's stil there in the heart of The City). After the Napoleonic wars he left for Batavia. My grandmother was an Eilbracht and she maried a Verhoeven. Son of a Dutch plantation owner and a Prussian mother, on East Java. Colonization of Indonesia started only after Napoleon.

It is only logical I am looking forward to this game, given my own history.

Here is map of the Dutch trading post at Coromandel:

http://www.vocsite.nl/images/kaarten/coromandel.gif
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Wow ! What a revelation ! I'm a student in History (PHd) and I have to advise you on one thing : you should give those letters to a public library, may it be a national library or a university one. Libraries will be much more effective in conserving the letters (and other papers?) you are still storing and will have better conditions for their conservation. It will also help diffuse the informations contained in those letters, which seem awfully important for the history of the VOC... Don't you think?
 
Niptium said:
Wow ! What a revelation ! I'm a student in History (PHd) and I have to advise you on one thing : you should give those letters to a public library, may it be a national library or a university one. Libraries will be much more effective in conserving the letters (and other papers?) you are still storing and will have better conditions for their conservation. It will also help diffuse the informations contained in those letters, which seem awfully important for the history of the VOC... Don't you think?
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The letters have been conservated and treated, and correctly archived in a special foil. I have 2, my relatives have more. They have been used by the author of the book on Jacob. The letters were personal letters from Jacob to his father in law (Jan de Maurignault) in Holland.
 
You see me reassured then :)
 
Niptium said:
The wave system looks better than in Total War
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I most heartily disagree! the water in EIC looks like rolling logs, water does not behave this way! - and a consequense of this is you get huge ships of the line "bobbing" (spelling) up and down in the water like a small booey (spelling) in a perfect storm! - a side effect of this is that it'll ruin your broadsides completely, and I expect it to have a negative effect on handling aswell :( ...Feel free to correct me...
 
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