Plan indicating the layout of a proposed British cantonment in the southern vicinity of Baghdad. The plan indicates railway lines, roads and vegetation, and provides some indication of relief. Includes the statement: 'Reproduced by Survey Party M.E.F. [Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force]'. Scale gi...
Ink sketch of a fortifiedbuilding somewhere between Kohant [Kohat]and Cabul [Kabul], encountered by the KandaharMission, a British diplomatic mission to Afghanistan in 1857-58.
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...
This item comprises a line drawn map laid out within a grid of latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates to scale (20 miles to five inches), but lacking a key, showing the Ras Hafoon [Raʾs Hafun] island and sandy land bridge linked to the north-eastern coast of Berbera [Somalia], Africa. The map s...
Map of Asia Minor located and the end of a report titled ‘‘Note on the Kurdish Situation’ by Major Edward William Charles Noel. The map indicates hydrology, settlements and roads. A table of references below the map indicates lines and highlighted areas referring to the following: ‘The predomin...
Map of the Kuwait hinterland compiled from reconnaissance sketches undertaken by Stuart George Knox and William Henry Irvine Shakespear, Political Agents at Kuwait in 1908 and 1910 respectively. The boundary of Kuwait is marked in red, along with additional places and geographic features added ...
Map of the Kuwait hinterland compiled from reconnaissance sketches undertaken by Stuart George Knox and William Henry Irvine Shakespear, Political Agents at Kuwait in 1908 and 1910 respectively. The boundary of Kuwait is marked in red, along with additional places and geographic features added ...