Fights of Anjouan
naval Battle delivered the July 25th 1720, meadows of the island of Anjouan, with the the Comoros, between a ship Pirate and a vessel of the British East india Company.
The Fancy and the Victory , two pirate ships ordered by the Irishman Edward England, surprise meadows of the island Johanna (Anjouan), two merchant ships Dutch and a British ship, the Cassandra . The Dutchmen flee, continued by the Victory , ordered by John Taylor, second of England, whereas this last on board the Fancy is on the point of facing the Cassandra , which seems decided to defend oneself.
The fight is wild and the British, galvanized by their captain James Macrae, fight like lions, inflicting a terrible bleeding with the pirates. The two boats are failed, but the combat does not cease therefore. The pirates however end up carrying it, losing 90 as of their and killing 77 sailors of the Cassandra of which they seize, making on this hand-low occasion on spoils of 75000 £. Macrae and the surviving sailors, for their part jumped to ground and are flee on the island.
The Fancy is in a sorry state and its crew is struck by the terrible fight which it has had to support. Taylor returning with Victory is dismayed by the spectacle. When a few days later, Macrae and its men, famished, return while beseeching the leniency of the pirates, the latter, encouraged by Taylor, shout revenge and threaten to hang them. But England is a former naval officer and feels reluctant to make atrocities. It thus shows magnanime and makes it possible its enemies to embark on board the Fancy and from to go away freely.
Furious, the pirates mutinent, elect Taylor as captain and stop their former chief whom they give up on the Mauritius, with three men who remained to him faithful.
Taylor takes the command of the Cassandra and entrusts that of the Victory to Olivier Levasseur known as the Tube, a French pirate who joint with him some time later and whose exploits defray soon the ports of the Indian Ocean. As for Macrae and its men, afterwards many adventures, they reach the Indian coasts on board a ship which is nothing any more but one wreck. Warmly congratulated for its heroic resistance, Macrae becomes thereafter governor of Madras, of 1725 with 1730.
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