
360. Spice Wars: The Battle of the East India Companies (Ep 3)
Published 5/17/2026

Published 5/17/2026
What caused the mighty Dutch East India Company to plummet from immense Golden Age wealth to total bankruptcy? Who was ‘Peter Pepper’, and how did his stolen plants end the VOC's spice monopoly? And how did a tiny Caribbean island spark the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War simply by saluting the American…