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The [[East India Company]] appointed Thomas Mostyn as envoy to the Peshwa’s court in [[Poona]] 1st April 1772, the aim was to curry favour and to prevent other colonial countries gaining access to [[Bombay]]’s Harbour, and the surrounding waterways. The real intention was to get possession of Salsette Island and the [[Bassein]] port from the [[Maratha]]s . Urged by Mostyn's negotiations for the news that a fleet had left Portugal to recover Salsette and Bassein, determined to gain possession cession of [[Thane]]Thana were rejected.

Mostyn's negotiations for Urged by the cession news that a fleet had left Portugal to recover Salsette and Bassein, including possession of [[Thana were rejected]]. On This would have left the [[Bombay]] isthmus isolated from the 12th December 1774, mainland of India. An assult was made on Thana Fort under Brigadier General Robert Gordon, a breach in the defences was made on the 24th, on 12th December 1774. On the 17th an attempt to fill the ditch was repulsed with the loss of 100 Europeans. But , a breach in the defences was made on the 24th, but it was not until the evening of the 28th the fort was carried by assaulttaken, and the greater part of the garrison were put to the sword.

 *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Anglo-Maratha_War 1st Maratha War Wikipedia]