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The capture of Hughli in 1632, and the slaughter of its brave 
defenders, was the death blow to Portuguese prestige in Bengal 
and in 1666, when Shayista Khan determined on annexing 
Chatgaon and the islands at the mouth of the Meghna, he threat- 
ened the Portuguese with the fate of the Hughli garrison if they 
an. The 
Imperial army, while a settlement at Farangi Bazar was 
established for the old and physically unfit. 
p. 
upon Chittagong, the island of Sondip was occupied by Dilawar, 
a Muhammadan, and troops in league with-the Mags. A detach- 
December [Nov. 1665] a larger force occupied the island, and 
held it. The main army then advanced along the coast, meet- 
ing with little opposition. Letters were sent to the Portuguese 
in the Mag service offering advantageous terms on submission. 
Several of these letters being intercepted, the Mag Rajah tried 
to induce the soldiers to remove into the interior of Arakan, 
but refusing to do so, they finally left in a body for Bengal. 
On the 18th December, 1665, they arrived at Nawakhali, and 
ved by the Viceroy. Some were enrolled as volunteers under 
an Englishman named Captain Moore, and joined in the expedi- 
tion against Chittagong. 

|. Nothing further has been learned regarding this soldier, but at the 
present day a small ‘* Tapp&” or division, in Bikrampar is named after him. 
[As Father Hosten points out, Dr. Wise has strangely misinterpreted the 
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Shiltabuddin T4lish ’s account of the conquest of Chittagong (J. N. Sarkar, 
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