Sheikh Said. Memorandum in Continuation of Departmental Memorandum of 7th March 1893. (With Sketch Map.)
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A memorandum written by Edmund Neel, Political and Secret Department, India Office, in continuation of a previous memorandum [IOR/L/PS/18/B60], in which the Resident at Aden is urged to ascertain the present situation at Sheikh Said [Ra’s Shaykh Sa‘īd] following fears that the French Government ...
Coll 6/67(1) 'Boundaries of South-Eastern Arabia and Qatar.'
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This volume primarily concerns British policy regarding the south-eastern boundaries of Saudi Arabia. It includes interdepartmental discussion regarding the approach that the British Government should take in reaching a settlement with King Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal...
Memorandum providing an overview of the external developments which took place in the Trucial States, covering 1908-28, and how problems presented by the States stand at the time of writing. Covering: introduction – to the memorandum itself; Trucial Chiefs; administration; responsibility of pol...
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of India Secret Department (Camp at Kurnaul [Karnal]) to the East India Company Secret Committee, Number 11 of 1838, dated 22 May 1838. The enclosures are dated 18 January-22 May 1838. The item comprises despatches betwe...
Enclosures nos. 2-33 to a dispatch from the Secret Department, Bombay [Mumbai] Castle, dated 31 January 1840. The enclosures are dated 11 May 1839-23 January 1840. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to affairs in the Persian Gulf, including: The arrival at Koweit [Kuwait]...
Enclosures nos. 2-106 to dispatch no. 107 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 31 December 1841. The enclosures are dated 9 March-31 December 1841. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to affairs in the Persian Gulf, including: A proposed extension to a Brit...
File 3665/1924 Pt 1 ‘Arabia:- Situation 1924; Wahabi attack on Hedjaz. Capture of Taif & defeat of Hedjaz Army. Abdication of King Hussein.’
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Correspondence and other papers concerning the invasion of the Hedjaz [Hejaz] by Wahabi [Wahhabi] forces associated with the Sultan of Najd, Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], and the subsequent abdication of the King of Hedjaz, Amir Hussein [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāsh...
Ext 3265/42 Egypt: position of Allied armed forces, question of removal or repatriation after the war
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The file contains correspondence from the Government of India, External Department, the Foreign Office, the Comite National Francais in London, the Ministère des Affaires étrangères de Belgique, the British Embassy in Belgium, the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Netherland Forei...
Coll 5/33 ‘Air-route to India: Landing ground at Gwadur; Muscat Civil Air Agreement’
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The file contains notes and correspondence related to the use of the Gwadur Aerodrome by Imperial Airways and the Royal Air Force. It also therefore covers the negotiations surrounding the Muscat Civil Air Agreement (1934), and subsequent amendments to modify the level of rent paid to the Sultan...
Relations between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the Sheikh of Koweit
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This secret memorandum, printed by the Foreign Office, contains a record of a meeting held at the Foreign Office on 5 October 1933 to discuss relations between Great Britain and the Sheikh of Koweit [Kuwait], Aḥmad bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, particularly in regards to Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Aziz bin ‘Abd a...
