The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c25.155

v3.c25.155

In September, 1547, Jorge de Menezes landed at Broach, burned both the fortress and the city, destroyed such guns as he could not carry away, and put the inhabitants to the sword. Later in the year the governor, João de Castro, with 3000 men, formed the foolhardy resolve of landing near Broach and attacking Mahmūd, who had assembled a force of 150,000 men and eighty guns either in order to renew the attack on Diū or to protect his ports from raids, but was dissuaded from the rash act. He sailed off and plundered and destroyed some ports on the coasts of Kāthiāwār and the Konkan, carrying much booty back to Goa; and Mahmūd, unwilling at length to exasperate a power which could at all times descend with impunity on his coasts refrained from renewing the attacks on Diū, and in 1548 executed a treaty most advantageous to the Portuguese.