[With Clive in India by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookWith Clive in India CHAPTER 17: The Capture Of Gheriah 9/31
Two hundred guns fell into the hands of the captors, together with great quantities of ammunition, and stores of all kinds.
The money and effects amounted to a hundred and twenty thousand pounds, which was divided among the captors.
The rest of Angria's fleet, among them two large ships on the stocks, was destroyed. Ramajee Punt sent parties of his troops to attack the other forts held by the pirates.
These, however, surrendered without resistance, and thus the whole country, which the pirates had held for seventy years, fell again into the hands of the Mahrattas, from whom they had wrested it. Admiral Watson and the fleet then returned to Bombay, in order to repair the damages which had been inflicted upon them during the bombardment.
There were great rejoicings upon their arrival there; the joy of the inhabitants, both European and native, being immense at the destruction of the formidable pirate colonies, which had so long ravaged the seas. After the repairs were completed, the fleet, with the troops which had formed the expedition, were to sail for Madras.
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