On 17 September, the city had 14,000 soldiers and militia volunteers, but only 6,500 of them were armed.
He escaped more than 1,000 soldiers, not counting the three or four hundred militia volunteers and Indian Scouts.
The militia volunteers carried out the remaining command of burning huts along the Village Creek banks.
Joint forces of militia volunteers and volunteer Indian allies were found to be the most effective.
He said people were also holding meetings to raise additional militia volunteers.
PMO members and local militia volunteers numbered some 900 or 1,200 men (sources vary).
The army consisted of 629 regular army infantrymen and 3,196 mounted militia volunteers.
The governor called for militia volunteers, and four hundred citizens responded.
He patrols them, most days of the month, he and militia volunteers.
A force of militia volunteers sent as recruits to the 56th arrived as a garrison in Goa in mid-1810.