The Military System of the Marathas, with a Brief Account of Their Maritime Activities c15.156
The Military System of the Marathas, with a Brief Account of Their Maritime Activities c15.156
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c15.156
Mutually antagonistic and disunited as they were, the Angria brothers could still defy any single maritime power of the coast. Unfortunately for Tulaji he had to contend against a simultaneous invasion by the strongest sea power and the most formidable land force that India knew at the time. When Kolaba was attacked by the joint Anglo-Portuguese army in 1721, his father obtained strong reinforcements from Poona led by Peshwa Baji Rao in person; but when the English bombarded Suvarnadurg in 1755, the Peshwa’s army co-operated with the invaders and Tulaji had no ally to befriend him.