Coll 5/81 ‘Facilities for U.S. Air Transport Corps at Bahrein and Sharjah’
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The file contains papers related to the provision of facilities for the United States Air Transport Command at both Bahrain and Sharjah. This includes policy and strategy discussions over how best to maintain British control of the Arabian Coast Air Route; British planners feared that the United...
On the Question of the Subsidies Paid to the Chiefs of the Mekran Coast to Protect the Land Telegraph from Gwadur to Jask
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Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 14 of 1869, dated 19 April 1869, with an abstract and enclosures numbered 3-5, dated 17 March-3 April 1869. The enclosures chiefly comprise two letters from the Secretary to the Government of Bomba...
Papers Regarding the Disputes between Muscat and the Wahabees (Vol 2) - Capture of Soor by the Wahabees - Question of the Existence of a Treaty between Nejed and the British Government - Military Operations Conducted under the Superintendence of Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly
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This item is a collection to India Political Despatch No. 61 of 23 August 1866, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of India Foreign Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of Ind...
Papers Regarding the Persian Gulf, Vol 10 – Appointment of the Head Arabic Mirza of the Bushire Residency to do Duty as Native Agent at Muscat on a Temporary Basis
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This item is a collection to India Political Despatch No. 37 of 28 February 1867, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of India Foreign Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of I...
Papers Regarding the Persian Gulf, Vol 12 – Further Proceedings Regarding Muscat – Seizure of the Principal Fort at Muscat by Syud Toorkee – Proposal of Lieutenant-Colonel Pelly to Proceed to Muscat in the Steamer Berenice
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This item is a collection to India Political Despatch No. 37 of 28 February 1867, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of India Foreign Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of I...
Further Papers Regarding Muscat, Vol 15 – Question of the Payment of the Zanzibar Subsidy to the Sultan of Muscat – Appointment of Agha Mohamed Bauker Khan as Native Agent at Muscat
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This item is a collection to India Political Despatch No. 37 of 28 February 1867, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of India Foreign Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of B...
Papers Regarding the Persian Gulf, Vol 20 – Protest of the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs Against the Seizure of the Bahrain Warship Dinar by the British Resident at Bushire – Claim of Persia to the Sovereignty of Bahrain
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This item is a collection to India Political Despatch No. 37 of 28 February 1867, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of India Foreign Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of I...
Copy of a Translation of a Firman from the King of Persia, and of an Annexed Political Treaty, Concluded by the Prime Minister of Persia and Captain John Malcolm, Envoy to Persia
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A copy of translation of a firman [edict] from the King [Shah] of Persia [Iran] from Futteh Ali Shauh [Fath-'Ali Shāh Qājār], and an annexed treaty concluded between Haujy Ibrahim Khaun [Hāji Ibrāhīm Khān Zand Kalāntar Shīrāzī], Prime Minister (Sadr-e 'Azam) of Persia, and Captain John Malcolm, ...
Copy of a Translation of Firman from the King of Persia, and of an Annexed Commercial Treaty, Concluded by the Prime Minister of Persia and Captain John Malcolm, Representative of the Government of India
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A copy of a translation of a firman [edict] from Fatteh Ali Shauh [Fath-'Ali Shāh Qājār] of Persia [Iran] proclaiming a treaty with Britain; and an annexed copy of the treaty. The treaty was signed by Ibraheem Khaun [Hājī Ibrāhīm Khān Zand Kalāntar Shīrāzī], Prime Minister (Sadr-e 'Azam) of Pers...
Enclosures in letter No. 8 from Sir Harford Jones, Envoy to Persia, to Sir Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control
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Enclosures in Letter No. 8 from Sir Harford Jones, British Envoy Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], to Sir Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control, dated 1809, consisting of: A copy of a letter from Brigadier-General John Malcolm to Sir Harford Jones, sent from Bombay [Mumbai] and dated 14...
