This item comprises copy correspondence, minutes and resolutions of the Bombay [Mumbai] Council, and other documents relating to arrangements for the civil government and administration, and strengthening of the military fortifications, of Aden by the British following their capture of the port ...
The plan indicates various places including the commissariat enclosure, camp bazar, parade ground, custom house compound, officers' cantonments, fort, hospital, library, stores, and school. The original was signed by W J Western, Lieutenant Engineers, Aden, 29 March 1839. Copied in the Chief E...
The plan indicates the parade, cantonment and custom house, officers’ barracks and cantonment, town, and a ‘Space [that] might [be] kept open to separate the cantonment’. Copied in the Chief Engineer Office, Bombay [Mumbai], 16 April 1839.
The survey indicates some elevation heights, the contours and quality of the terrain and its suitability or not for defences. Original was signed Robert Foster, Captain Engineers, Aden, 1 April 1839. Copied in the Chief Engineer Office, Bombay [Mumbai], 16 April 1839.
The plan indicates old defences in red and proposed defences in blue and shows ‘Broken rock battery for four guns to sweep the road to back bay and steamer point’ and ‘Battery for four guns to sweep the road to the Turkish wall’. The original was signed by W J Western, Lieutenant, Engineers, A...
‘Plan of the Turkish Wall Shewing its Defences when Completed’
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The plan includes the old jetty and Gibul Hadeed [mound?]. The original was signed by W J Western, Lieutenant Engineers, Aden, 29 March 1839. Copied in the Chief Engineer Office, Bombay [Mumbai], 16 April 1839.
