[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [General histories](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general) › [Tārīkh-i Firishta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta) › [History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs) › 102.5 # Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 102.5 History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs) 102.5 - **Language:** English ### [102.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.102.5) At this time, a fleet of sixty vessels belonging to the Portuguese, full of men and military stores, passing close to Korla, under cover of the night, anchored safely in the harbour of Reevadunda, where they landed four thousand men, and on the following morning, at daylight, proceeded to attack Korla. Many of the Mahomedans, on the approach of the Europeans, fled in confusion to the Christians, and went to Portugal. Seventy-five guns were captured on this occasion. Faria-e-Souza, vol. iii. part i. chap. viii. fort, whither they were so closely followed by the Portuguese that they rushed in at the gates with them, and commenced an indiscriminate slaughter of the King's troops, who, though two to one, made little resistance, and upwards of twelve thousand Mahomedans were put to the sword. The Portuguese subsequently reduced the fort to ashes. This destruction of the Deccanies was considered by Boorhan Nizam Shah as a fortunate event. He elevated foreigners to the principal stations in the empire, and ordered them to proceed to Choul; but his intentions were for the present deferred, while he assisted Ismael, the brother of Ibrahim Adil Shah, in deposing that monarch. Accordingly, in the year 1003, Boorhan Nizam Shah marched from Ahmudnuggur towards Belgam; but having heard, on his arrival at Purenda, that the Prince Ismael had been taken and put to death, he returned, covered with mortification, to his capital, where he was shortly afterwards taken dangerously ill. - [Previous: 102.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.102.4) - [Next: 102.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.102.6) - [Up: 102](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.102) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.102.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.102.5) · Pramāṇa