The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_East_India_Company" id="mwTQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="British East India Company">British East India Company</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_(trading_post)" id="mwTg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Factory (trading post)">factory</a> on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balambangan_Island" id="mwTw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Balambangan Island">Balambangan Island</a> is destroyed by <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_in_the_Sulu_Sea" id="mwUA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Piracy in the Sulu Sea">Moro pirates</a>.<sup about="#mwt55" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"}}' id="cite_ref-9" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_26#cite_note-9" id="mwUQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 9;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwUg">[9]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"><cite about="#mwt52" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFWarren1981">Warren, James Francis (1981). <i id="mwBn4">The Sulu Zone, 1768-1898: The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery, and Ethnicity in the Transformation of a Southeast Asian Maritime State</i>. Singapore: NUS Press. p.<span id="mwBn8" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>36.</cite><span about="#mwt52" class="Z3988" id="mwBoA" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Sulu+Zone%2C+1768-1898%3A+The+Dynamics+of+External+Trade%2C+Slavery%2C+and+Ethnicity+in+the+Transformation+of+a+Southeast+Asian+Maritime+State&amp;rft.place=Singapore&amp;rft.pages=36&amp;rft.pub=NUS+Press&amp;rft.date=1981&amp;rft.aulast=Warren&amp;rft.aufirst=James+Francis&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFebruary+26"></span></span>