This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee: Bombay Secret Letter 1 June 1821. The enclosures are dated 2 April-21 May 1821. The item comprises an extract of the proceedings of the Bombay Government and correspond...
General Orders. Head Quarters. Army of the Indus. Camp Larkana 4th March 1839
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Copy of General Orders issued by Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Ronald Macdonald, Military Secretary, and Deputy Adjutant General HM Forces Bombay [Mumbai]. The orders concern the organisation and command structure of the Army of the Indus, henceforth to be under overall command of Lieutenant-Gene...
Supplying the Bombay Division of the Army of the Indus During the British-led Invasion of Afghanistan
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Copies of correspondence and other papers, chiefly comprising communications between Henry Pottinger, Resident in Sinde [Sindh, also spelled Scinde in this volume], and the Government of India, Bombay [Mumbai], regarding his arrangements for obtaining and transporting stores and supplies for the...
The papers mainly relate to the British-led invasion of Afghanistan. They chiefly comprise copies of reports by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Alexander Burnes, Envoy to Kelat, to William Hay Macnaghten, Envoy and Minister at the camp of Shah Shoojah [Shāh Shujā’ al-Mulk Durrāni], as forwarded to John P...
Intelligence report, entitled ‘Newsletter', dated 11 May 1839, covering: Peshawur [Peshawar]; the Army of the Indus; (chiefly regarding its approach to Candahar [Kandahar]); Upper Scinde [Sindh]; Joudhpore [Jodhpur]; Jhansi; Bithoor [Bithur]; Nipal [Nepal]; Ava [Inwa]; and Items of General Intel...
Military Affairs in Afghanistan, India, Egypt and Syria, and Turkish Arabia
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The item comprises enclosures to a despatch, Number 117 of 1839, dated 25 October 1839, from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the East India Company Secret Committee containing a précis of the latest financial, military, political and general intelligence on: Lahore; Mooltan [Multan...
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 35 of 1840, dated 20 June 1840. The enclosures are numbered 3-29 and are dated 22 April to 19 June 1840. The enclosures consist of corresponden...
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 44 of 1840, dated 30 June 1840. The enclosures are dated 7 May to 30 June 1840. The enclosures consist of correspondence relating to affairs at ...
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 50 of 1840, dated 23 July 1840. The enclosures are numbered 3-46 and are dated 16 October to 22 July 1840. The enclosures mostly consist of cor...
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 55 of 1840, dated 19 August 1840. The enclosures are numbered 3-24 and are dated 6 July to 15 August 1840. The enclosures mostly consist of corr...