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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Siege of Herat (1837-1838) Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/PS/5/137

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/137
Title:
'Enclosures to Secret Letters from India', Vol 56
Scope & Content:
The volume contains manuscript copies of secret letters, despatches, memoranda, translations of letters, intelligence reports and financial statements relating to diplomatic, military and logistical preparations for the British-led invasion of Afghanistan by the so-called Army of the Indus. Pac...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Jul 1839
Extent:
1 volume (793 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/90

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/90
Title:
‘Vol 124 Secret letters inward and outward’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence relating to the crisis in Britain’s relations with Persia in the early 1840s, in the wake of the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-42) and the siege of Herat (1838), which led to British occupation of the island of Karrak [Jazīreh-ye Khārk] in the Persian Gulf. Th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 May 1840-8 Feb 1843
Extent:
1 volume (72 folios)