The object of the Third Voyage was to open up trade in the Red Sea and at Surat. Hawkins, who was one of the captains, had a letter from James I asking for the grant of liberty of trade and the right to build a factory at Surat. To circumvent obstruction from the local port ...
The subject of the film itself was a remarkable moment of border-crossing, when German deserters from the French For- eign Legion in Indochina joined and fought with the anticolonial Viet Minh in the 1940s.20 Torner and Lenshyn argue that the film's "transnational aes- thetic" ended up ...