bancoote

Updated: May 13, 2025

With the assistance of a Maratha fleet he had attacked the island fortress of Suwarndrug, and captured it, as Hybati had related. A few days afterwards another of the Pirate's fortresses, the island of Bancoote, six miles north of Suwarndrug, surrendered.

Herbert Strang - In Clive's Command : A Story of the Fight for India