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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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East India Company to garrison fort captured from Malabar pirate Angria, ending threat after prior ship losses: Bengal (1730), Derby (1732, £90,000), Restoration. Reported Dec. 16 from London.
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Dec. 16. The East India Company intend to keep a strong Garrison in the Fort lately taken from Angria, the Malabar Pirate: By this Conquest the Company have got rid of a very troublesome and dangerous Neighbour; for in January 1730 he took one of their Ships call'd the Bengal, richly laden, after a stout Resistance; and on the 22d of October, 1732, their Ship the Derby, Capt. Anson, worth 90,000 l. was shamefully surrender'd without Resistance; besides which, at another Time he also took the Restoration, one of the Company's Ships.
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Malabar
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Lately, As Of Dec. 16
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conquest of fort from angria; previous losses: bengal taken january 1730, derby surrendered 22 october 1732 worth 90,000 l., restoration taken at another time
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The East India Company intends to keep a strong garrison in the fort lately taken from Angria, the Malabar Pirate, thereby ridding themselves of a troublesome neighbor. Historical context includes Angria's capture of the Bengal in January 1730 after resistance, the shameful surrender of the Derby under Capt. Anson on 22 October 1732, and the taking of the Restoration at another time.