Enclosure nos. 2-161 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of India, dated 20 August 1841. The enclosures are dated 5 June-20 August 1841, and contain for reference material dated 5 September 1840-4 June 1841. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to the Fi...
Intelligence Forwarded by Sir Alexander Burnes Relating to Progress of the British Invasion of Afghanistan (First Anglo-Afghan War, 1839-1842)
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Copies of intelligence despatches from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Alexander Burnes, Envoy to Kelat [Kalat, also spelled Khelat in this volume], to William Hay Macnaghten, Envoy and Minister at Shah Shoojah’s Camp [Shah Shuja ul-Mulk], (copied to John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government, ...
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...
This item relates to the British-led invasion of Afghanistan. It comprises a letter dated 23 May 1839, from Thomas Herbert Maddock, Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General, to John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government, Bombay [Mumbai], forwarding a copy of a new...