Storia do Mogor 281.28.8

281.28.8

Then, while this was happening, the captain came up with reinforcements from the fortress and drove out all these traitors. They were forced to evacuate the two bastions they had occupied. A number of their men were left behind dead, but they subsequently removed the bodies. Including dead and wounded, they lost seventy men in their retreat. The cowardice of this rabble upon this occasion seems most extraordinary, for they numbered over eleven hundred, while, in addition, they were masters of two bastions and of all the streets. In spite of these advantages, seventeen men repelled them to a great extent, and a reinforcement of forty men coming from the fortress [Fort St. David] completed their rout and ejected them completely, after a considerable loss, if we consider how few were the men on the English side. The latter lost two men, and had twenty-two wounded. Nevertheless, as soon as the Mahomedan was back within his district, he contemplated massing a still larger force, meaning to return to the charge. The next time he succeeded no better, and was repulsed every time he made an attempt; though it is true that he burnt four large villages belonging to the company.