Lewis and Clark started recruiting interpreters when they were planning their expedition to land west of the Mississippi. Sacagawea and her husband, Toussaint Charbonneau joined them in November 1804.
23 – Chief Brokers and Heads of the Malabars in 18th-century Pondicherry
There are two buildings in Heritage Town in the former French colony of Pondicherry that are associated with men who were key to the success of French trade there: St Andrew’s Church, built in 1745 by Pedro Kanakaraya Mudaliar in memory of his son, and the 1735 house owned by Ananda Ranga Pillai, who succeeded Mudaliar as chief intermediary for …