Friday, September 6, 2024

PIRATES OF OLD BOMBAY

 

Pirates attack!

1690 to 1695 A.D.

Marauding pirates like Avery, 

Captain Kidd 

William Kidd - Ship, Death & Facts

and

 Belmont 

raided the islands repeatedly. The creeks and inlets between the islands sheltered them.

 Malabari pirates 

were attracted by the laden ships and watch was kept on them from the hill at Walkeshwar Point thus giving it the name Malabar Hill. 

1707 in piracy

Kanhoji Angria, a pirate active between Bombay and the Malabar coast, is reported to have amassed "a fleet of considerable strength" after two years of ...
Bombay was a city on the west coast of India. It had a deep natural harbour and had a history as a colony of Portugal and England.
28 Apr 2012At the end of August 1697 off the Malabar Coast, Kidd encountered a small Moorish twin masted ship Mary of two hundred tones headed to Bombay ...
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 Malabar Hill and the Pirates of Malabar ...

 The Sidi of Janijira 

too, attacked and occupied Mazagaon Fort. 

 

The Sidi of Janjira - The Indian Heritage Society, Mumbaiihsmumbai.com

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In 1733, the Maratha Empire took aggressive action and embarked on a campaign against the siddis of Janjira. They couldn't take the Janjira fort but captured ...