Letter No.2 from Lewis Pelly, Herat to Charles Alison, British Minister at Tehran
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Letter reporting how he had attempted to pass through Herat territory without much attention but intelligence had been received at Herat of his approach, and the sons of Sultan Ahmed Khan had been sent to accompany him into Herat. The letter goes on to give Pelly's reasons for having despatache...
Letter No.3 from Lewis Pelly, Herat to Charles Alison, British Minister at Tehran
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Letter reporting on a recent victory over the Jumsheedee [Jamshidi] tribe in which the Herat army was led by the eldest son of Sultan Ahmed Khan, and reporting that the late Chief of that tribe Abdullah Khan had been one of the key instigators of a plot to depose Sultan Ahmed Khan.
Copy of Telegram from the Secretary to Government, Punjab to Hugh Rees James, Commissioner and Superintendent, Peshawar Division
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Telegram stating that the Governor General had approved the orders issued to Major Lewis Pelly and further requested that he may be instructed to send his despatches through the Ameer [Amir]'s people to Peshawar or to bring them via Quetta.
Copy of letter No.34 of 1860 from Jonathan Duncan Inverarity, the Commissioner in Sind, Commissioner's Office, Camp Nuggur Parhur to The Right Honourable Lord Elphinstone, Governor and President in Council, Bombay
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Copy made in April 1860 of a letter from the Commissioner in Sind to the Governor at Bombay, originally dated 16 February 1860, commencing on folio 2v, which enclosed translations of letters sent by Colonel Frederick Goldsmid, Political Superintendent of the North West Frontier, relating to inte...
Notes by Lewis Pelly on Mr M Khamkoff's mission in Afghanistan
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Draft notes written by Lewis Pelly on the effects of the visit of Russian Officers to Herat, including the financial donations made, and the mission of M Khamkoff, a Russian whose route Pelly followed for a time. Mr Khamkoff's mission is discussed in detail in the notes, along with Pelly's own ...
Letter No.4 from Lewis Pelly, Herat to His Excellency Charles Alison, British Minister at Tehran
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Letter reporting on Sirdar Sultan Ahmed Khan's concerns that Dost Mahomed Khan intends to take Mermenah [Maīmanah] and to invade Herat territory, that he receives secret information through one of his wives who is the daughter of Dost Mahomed Khan, and that he believes the Indian Government to b...
Letter No.5 from Lewis Pelly, Herat to His Excellency Charles Alison, British Minister at Tehran
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Letter informing His Excellency that the Persian Army at Merve [Merv] had been 'utterly defeated' at the hands of the Turcomans. The letter goes on to describe a letter from Humza Mirza which had arrived by messenger from Ameer [Amir] Shah Nawaz Khan's camp informing them of the attack on the P...
'No.6 Memo: On the conspiracy to supplant Sirdar Sultan Ahmed Khan, Barucksye [Barakzai] in favor of Shahzadeh Mahomed Rizoo [Muhammad Reza] Suddozyee [Sadozai] in the Government of Herat'
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Memorandum regarding a conspiracy to replace Sirdar Sultan Ahmed Khan as Governor of Herat which Pelly became aware of on arrival at Meshed [Mashhad] and which had allegedly occured in about June or July 1860. The memorandum discusses reports that the Shahzadeh Mahomed Riza [Muhammad Reza] had...
'No.8 Memo: On the defeat of the Persian Force at Merv: and on the present condition and prospects of the Persian Eastern and Herat Northern Frontiers'
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Memorandum regarding the defeat by the Turcomans of the Persian Force at Merv, describing the Persian Force's movements and tactics in the five days prior to their final defeat including their decision to retreat from their position in order to acquire more provisions and the Turcoman's success ...
'No.8 Summary of memo relative to the defeat of the Persian Expeditionary Force at Merv'
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A summarised version of the account of the Persian Army's defeat to the Tekkie [Tekke] Turcomans at Merv which was given in detail in folios 21-24. The summary includes the account of how the Persians were defeated, the rumours of what happened to the captured forces, the Prince Governors fligh...
