swally การใช้

• The English did not allow anyone to use the port at Swally and used to charge duty for permission to do so ."
• Besides, the English found it convenient to use the place for their early trade with Surat as Swally was navigable in low tides.
• The Portuguese sea monopoly lasted until it was taken during the Dutch-Portuguese War, the British East India Company and the Battle of Swally in 1612.
• The English were lying in the Swally, now known as Sutherland Channel, inside a sheltering shoal, which kept the enemy's larger ships at a distance.
• Gayer left his stronghold at Bombay and came to Swally ( Suvali ), the roadstead of Surat, to arrange the disputes in which the governor of Surat was involved.
• Norris fell out with him, and sailed on 23 August 1700 for Swally ( Suvali ), the port on the Indian west coast for Surat, which he reached on 10 December.
• Kanhoji's harassment of British commercial interests ( who hence called him a pirate ) and the Battle of Swally led them to establish a small naval force that eventually became the modern Indian Navy.
• Some few days later the Portuguese attempted a further attack in what became known as the Battle of Swally, when Best, again standing out to sea, engaged them with such resolution and skill that after four hours'severe fighting they made all sail to get away.
• The Portuguese victory was critical : the Mamluks and Arabs retreated, easing the Portuguese strategy of controlling the Indian Ocean to route trade down the Cape of Good Hope, circumventing the traditional Mamluk Sultanate and the Gujarat Sultanate, greatly assisting the growth of the Portuguese Empire and establishing its trade dominance for almost a century, until it was lost during the Dutch-Portuguese War and the Battle of Swally ( Battle Of Suvali ) won by the British East India Company in 1612.