Lord Cutler Beckett é membro do EIC (Companhia das Índias Orientais) ...
(Acima: Caixa de Lord Beckett com Emblema da EIC)
The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company and informally as John Company,1 was an English and later British joint-stock company,[2] which was formed to pursue trade with the "East Indies" (in present-day terms, Maritime Southeast Asia), but ended up trading mainly with Qing China and seizing control of the Indian subcontinent.
Originally chartered as the "Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies", the company rose to account for half of the world's trade, particularly in basic commodities including cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, saltpetre, tea, and opium. The company also ruled the beginnings of the British Empire in India...
East India Company Army and Navy
In its first century and half, the EIC used a few hundred soldiers as guards. The great expansion came after 1750, when it had 3,000 regular troops. By 1763, it had 26,000; by 1778, it had 67,000. It recruited largely Indian troops, and trained them along European lines.[31] The military arm of the East India Company quickly developed to become a private corporate armed force, and was used as an instrument of geo-political power and expansion, rather than its original purpose as a guard force, and became the most powerful military force in the Indian sub-continent. As it increased in size the army was broken into the Presidency Armies of Bengal, Madras and Bombay each recruiting their own integral infantry, cavalry, artillery and horse artillery units. The navy also grew significantly, vastly expanding its fleet and although made up predominantly of heavily armed merchant vessels, called East Indiamen, it also included warships.
Em Piratas do Caribe (DMC / AWE) , Beckett é o Governador da Companhia e recebeu o título de "Lord " . Afirma-se também que ele é um representante devidamente nomeado de Sua Majestade, o Rei (George II).
Cutler Beckett was the Governor of the East India Trading Company. Born and raised in a prosperous merchant family in England, Cutler Beckett joined the East India Company after a fight with his father. For many years he faithfully served the Company, eventually becoming the Director of West African Imports and Exports for the Company.http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/Cutler_Beckett
Lord was a title given to a male who held power and authority. Cutler Beckett of the East India Trading Company was granted the title of Lord at some point prior to assuming control of Port Royal.1 His mentor Reginald Marmaduke Bracegirdle-Penwallow was also a Lord at some point before the late 1720s.[2] Lord John Carteret served on the Court of King George II around 1750.[3] http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/Lord
Como e além: Beckett também conhecia Jack antes do início da série. Sua história é destaque no romance, Piratas do Caribe: o preço da liberdade .
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom is a 2011 adventure novel written by A. C. Crispin, the last to be published during her lifetime. A prequel to the film series, the book details the adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow when he was in the employ of the East India Trading Company as well as following how Jack was branded as a pirate and became captain of the Black Pearl. It was published in hardcover from Disney Editions, on May 17, 2011.http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/The_Price_of_Freedom