[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) › 208.5.3 # Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 208.5.3 History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs) 208.5.3 - **Language:** English ### [208.5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.208.5.3) In the year 913, the infidel Europeans, who had of late years usurped the dominion of the ocean, endeavoured to occupy for themselves some port on the Guzerat coast, on which they wished to settle; and the Grand Seignior of Constantinople, desirous of opposing this measure, deputed Ameer Hoossein with a fleet from the Red Sea to engage them in this quarter. Ameer Hoossein arrived off the Guzerat coast in this year; and Mahmood Shah, also, anxious to aid in the expulsion of these strangers, sailed with a fleet first to Daman, and then to Mahim. On his arrival at the former port, he ordered Mullik Eiaz Sooltany, the Ameer-ool-Omra, with a large fleet, to sail from Diu to attack the enemy in concert with the Turkish fleet, whose ships were of a larger description than those of Guzerat. The combined fleets fell in with the Portuguese off the port of Choul, where an engagement took place, in which the flag-ship of the enemy (valued at a crore of rupees) was sunk, and every man on board perished. Mullik Eiaz, having thus defeated the Portuguese fleet, returned victoriously; for “although four hundred Turks were honoured with “the crown of martyrdom, no fewer than three “thousand or four thousand Portuguese infidels “were, at the same time, sent to the infernal regions.” After this event, the King having placed the Guzerat ports in security from the enemy’s attacks, returned to Mahomedabad Champanere. - [Previous: 208.5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.208.5.2) - [Next: 208.5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.208.5.4) - [Up: 208.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.208.5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.208.5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.208.5.3) · Pramāṇa