The Military System of the Marathas, with a Brief Account of Their Maritime Activities c17.15
The Military System of the Marathas, with a Brief Account of Their Maritime Activities c17.15
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c17.15
It is needless to say that if such orders were issued to Portuguese naval officers in the middle of the eighteenth century when the Portuguese naval power was undoubtedly on the wane, they had sent out their fleet in earlier times with the sole purpose of taking prizes. The Dutch Governor-General and the Council of India wrote to the Directors of the Dutch East India Company in 1668: