Letter No. 16A of 1854 from Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Bushire to Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government, Secret Department, Bombay
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The letter is forwarding a proposal from Colonel Rawlinson, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, for the deployment of an Anglo-Indian Army in the Russian War [Crimean War]. It further notes some of the difficulties to be expected in traversing an army through Persia, and in procuring supplies. T...
Letter No. 2 of 1855 from Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Bushire to Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government, Secret Department, Bombay
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The letter is forwarding translations of documents presented to the Resident by Shaikh Abdul Azeez ben Seleem, a Wahabee [Wahabi] envoy. It notes that the documents were penned prior to the Resident's communications conveying the resolution of the British Government respecting the sons of the Ex...
Letter No. 4 of 1855 from Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Bushire to Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government, Secret Department, Bombay
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The letter is reporting the arrival of Shaikh Mahomed bin Abdullah — son of the Ex-Chief of Bahrain [Bahrein] — at Bushire, and that Ameer Fysul [Amīr Fayṣul], the Wahabee [Wahabi] Chief, has acquiesced to the policy of the British Government; British policy being that the exiled branch of the U...
Letter No. 1 from Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, aboard the HC Ship Clive to Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government, Secret Department, Bombay
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The letter is reporting that the Resident has successfully mediated a reconciliation between Shaikh Mahomed bin Khuleefah [Muḥammed bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah], Chief of Bahrein [Bahrain], and Shaikh Mahomed bin Abdullah; it notes that the negotiations were conducted as part of the Resident's annu...
Letter No. 7 of 1855 from Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Bushire to Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government, Secret Department, Bombay
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The letter is reporting that Ameer Fysul [Amīr Fayṣul], the Wahabee [Wahabi] Chief, has indicated his concurrence respecting the reconciliation between Shaikh Mahomed bin Khuleefah [Muḥammed bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah], Chief of Bahrein [Bahrain], and Shaikh Mahomed bin Abdullah; though it notes h...
Letter No. 384 of 1855 from Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government, Secret Department, Bombay to Commander James Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter is acknowledging the receipt of Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball's communications — Nos. 1B, 2, 4, and 7; dated 26 May, 23 February, 3 April, and 10 August 1855 — reporting his successful reconciliation of the Chief of Bahrein [Bahrain] with his exiled relatives at Demaun [Ad-Dammān], ...
Letter No. 6 of 1855 from Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Bushire to Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government, Secret Department, Bombay
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The letter requests that the Resident is furnished with instructions detailing the extent he is authorised to use force to protect Bahrain from Ameer Fysul [Amīr Fayṣul], the Wahabee [Wahabi] Chief. It outlines the background of British policy towards the island from 1851 to give context to th...
Letter No. 8 of 1855 from Lieutenant Herbert Frederick Disbrowe, Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf, in charge at Bushire to Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government, Secret Department, Bombay
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The letter is conveying the particulars of an interview held with Alee ben Iraheem, an envoy for Shaikh Mahomed ben Khuleefa [Muḥammed bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah], Chief of Bahrein [Bahrain] on 1 October 1855. The subject matter discussed includes a complaint that Shaikh Mahomed ben Abdullah is n...
Letter Office No. 9 of 1855 from Lieutenant Herbert Frederick Disbrowe, Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf, in charge at Bushire to Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government, Secret Department, Bombay
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The letter is informing the Bombay Government that it has been established — by the Agent at Bahrein [Bahrain], Hajee Jassem — that the Al Ali tribe intends to relocate from Ges to the Arabian Coast; it notes that thirty-five boats have landed at Demaun [Ad-Dammān], and that Shaikh Ali ben Sulta...
Letter No. 10 of 1855 from Lieutenant Herbert Frederick Disbrowe, Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf, in charge at Bushire to Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government, Secret Department, Bombay
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The letter is warning the Bombay Government that if the Imam of Muscat, Syed Saeed [Sa‘īd bin Sultān Āl Sa‘īd], was to obtain assistance from Bahrein [Bahrain] in his dispute with Persia, it could lead to the Persian Government renewing their claim over the island. It therefore requests instruct...
