"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٢‎٦] (١٧٨٢/١٦٩)

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Persian forces were miserably armed and equipped; they suffered severely
from want of water and provisions, due to inefficient arrangements; and
their commander was guilty of various breaches of faith towards the
English, especially in holding separate communication with the Portu-
n-uese, which cannot have conduced to the success of the joint operations.
On the 2nd of April two more mines were exploded by officers from the
English ships, but the Persians refused to attack the breaches thuB
opened; the garrison, however, were by this time in great distress.
On the 14th and 17th of April, fresh breaches having been effected by
means of mines, the besiegers made an assault in great force; but a mere
handful of Portuguese and negroes sufficed to repulse them to a barricade,
where the Persians "the whole day stood flocking together in the Sunne
" without either meat or drink, which was sufficient to have killed halfe
" of themAccording to Monox the Persian " Soldiers hang in a
" cluster upon the breach just as a swarme of Bees upon a tree or bush
" that want a Hive; or like a flocke of Sheepe at a gappe, where none is
" so bardie to enter, and the Portugals to put them out of that paine
" gleaneth away foure, five, sixe, sometimes more at a shot ^insomuch
" that I cannot but pittie them to see it. " On the 18th another assault
was made and failed; but on the 19th the Persians gained possession
of the whole enceinte, and the Portuguese retired into some of the inner
works.
At last on the 21st of April, the Portuguese, thinking it unwise to
rely on Persian good faith and preferring to deal with Christians, made
overtures to the English, who undertook that their lives should be spared;
and a truce of two days was arranged through Monox and the captains of
the ships. On the 23rd of April the Portuguese* surrendered on condition
that they should be removed from the country j the same day they began
to march out, to the number of 2,600 persons, the English protecting
them to the best of their ability, but not with entire success, against
injury and insult by the Persians; and on the 27th they were despatched
in English vessels to Masqat. Meanwhile Saiyid Muhammad Shah, the
native ruler of Hormuz, had been taken by the Persians ; he was subse
quently deported to Shiraz, where he remained as a political detenu for
some years. A number of Indian traders also fell into their hands.
* Another account says the Capitulation was on the 22nd May, but is probably wrong.
According to the Portuguese authorities a surrender was first arranged by Luiz de Brito,
^vho commanded the fort, and Siioao de Mello, the Governor, then pretended to oppose
the idea hot afteiwarda incited the soldiers to mutiny and so capitulated. The same
authorities make the number of Portuguese who left Hormuz 2,000 of both sexes and
all ages.