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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Language English Name Government of India, Quartermaster-General's Department, 1877-1895

1. IOR/L/MIL/17/16/20/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/16/20/1
Title:
‘The Russo-Turkish War. 1877. Operations in Europe.’
Scope & Content:
Confidential report detailing operations in Europe that took place during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877/78, written by Major R J Maxwell, of Section D, Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General’s Department. The report, which covers the period November 1876 to May 1877, is organised under the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1877
Extent:
1 item (33 folios)

2. IOR/L/MIL/17/16/20/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/16/20/3
Title:
‘Sketch of the Danube between Sistova and Zimnitza. To illustrate the Passage by Russian Corps on 27th June 1877.’
Scope & Content:
Map of the River Danube indicating the passage of Russian troops on 27 June 1877, during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877/78. The map shows: the Danube with tributaries, islands and marshland; topography, with some indication of relief, settlements; roads. Sheet 1 shows the towns of Sistova [Svisht...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1877
Extent:
1 map on 2 sheets

3. IOR/L/MIL/17/16/20/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/16/20/4
Title:
‘Environs of Rustchuk.’
Scope & Content:
Map of Rustchuck [Ruse] and the surrounding region, on the banks of the River Danube. The map indicates: the Danube river, with islands and marshes; topography, with some indication of relief; settlements; fortifications, batteries and cordons; roads and railways. A statement below the title of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1877
Extent:
1 map

4. IOR/L/MIL/17/16/28

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/16/28
Title:
‘Cyprus.’
Scope & Content:
Report compiled by Captain Albany Robert Savile of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment, in the Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General’s Department, Horse Guards. The report was published and printed in London under the superintendence of HM’s Stationery Office in 1878. The report contains fourtee...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1878
Extent:

1 volume (91 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/20/60

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/60
Title:
FRENCH POSSESSIONS IN THE GULF OF ADEN. COMPILED BY CAPTAIN E.J.E SWAYNE, 16TH BENGAL INFANTRY.
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of an intelligence document issued by the Government of India, Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General's Department, which provides comprehensive descriptions of French possessions on the African coast of the Gulf of Aden, including the towns of Obok [Obock] and Jibouti ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1895
Extent:

1 volume (36 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/20/122

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/122
Title:
‘Notes of a journey made between Shiraz and Jashk, via Fassa, Darab, Bandar Abbas, and Minab.’
Scope & Content:
Confidential notes of a journey made through Persia [Iran] from Shiraz to Jashk [Jāsk], via Fassa [Fasā], Dārāb, Bandar Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] and Mīnāb, by John Richard Preece, Assistant Superintendent of the Telegraph Department, Persia. The report was published by the Intelligence Branch, Of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
1884
Extent:

1 volume (26 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/20/125

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/125
Title:
‘Persia.’
Scope & Content:
Paper No.7 written by Colonel Augustus Le Messurier of the Bombay Engineers, being a diary of a journey through Persia [Iran] from Rasht to Bushire, undertaken between 24 October and 9 December 1887. The volume was published in Calcutta [Kolkota] in 1888, in Government of India Quarter Master Ge...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888
Extent:

1 volume (20 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/20/144

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/144
Title:
Reconnaissances in Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, North-West Persia, and Luristan from April to October 1888. By Lt F R Maunsell, Intelligence Branch. In Two Volumes. Volume I: narrative report, description of larger towns and routes leading from them. Simla: Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General's Dept, 1890
Scope & Content:
Narrative report on surveys conducted in Mesopotamia [Iraq], North-West Persia [Iran] and Luristan [Lorestān]. The preface provides the following information: 'The object was to explore various tracts of little known country through which roads lead north from the head of the Persian Gulf to th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1890
Extent:

1 volume (152 folios)

9. Mss Eur F111/298

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F111/298
Title:
Report on Sistan and the Country Between It and Mashad
Scope & Content:
The volume is Report on Sistan and the Country Between it and Mashad [Mashhad], by Lieutenant H D Napier, Staff Lieutenant, Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General's Department in India. It was printed at the Government Central Printing Office, Simla, 1894. It consists of two parts, politica...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1894
Extent:

1 volume (55 folios)

10. Mss Eur F111/370

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F111/370
Title:
ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.
Scope & Content:
The volume is a Government of India official publication entitled Routes in Persia. Section II. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India by Captain J. Vans Agnew, 3rd Madras Lancers (Simla: printed at the Government Central Printing Office, 1895). ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1895
Extent:

1 volume (57 folios)