Oh, not counting the hundreds of Europeans before him. Some of them went to India so often that they even wrote down detailed descriptions of how to get there, like the Erythrean Sea Periplus from ca. 1st C. https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/ancient/periplus.asp …https://twitter.com/thehistoryguy/status/997573074378723328 …
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Replying to @Calthalas @caitlinrgreen
Didn't King Alfred send alms to India? I know that doesn't mean he went there personally, but presumably they weren't sent by drone.
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He did indeed; there's been some scepticism of the annal mentioning this, but I don't think it's justified :)
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