A History of the Mahrattas v1.c17.46
A History of the Mahrattas v1.c17.46
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v1.c17.46
The fort was at this time breached and might have been stormed, but the viceroy with the ideas of a European unused to Indian warfare, alarmed lest his retreat should be cut off and Goa exposed to danger, immediately resolved on retiring. He effected his retreat; but at the expense of the whole of his camp equipage, stores, guns, and equipments: twelve hundred of his men were slain, of whom two hundred were Europeans.