The Military System of the Marathas, with a Brief Account of Their Maritime Activities c17.20
The Military System of the Marathas, with a Brief Account of Their Maritime Activities c17.20
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c17.20
How the Dutch enforced their rights against other nations in the seventeenth century we do not precisely know, but it appears from an entry in the Bombay Public Consultations that in the second decade of the next century they had also started the profitable business of capturing and confiscating alien ships. They had seized some English vessels apparently without any just reason, and the Bombay Council sent a strong protest to the Council of Cochin against their action.¹