This item comprises one enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 4 dated 2 January 1857. The enclosure is dated 30 December 1856. The enclosure comprises a summary, by a Secretary in the Military Depart...
Copies of correspondence and minutes relating to affairs in Aden subsequent to the capture of the port by the British in January 1839. The papers notably cover: Report (ff 529-550) of Captain Robert Foster, Engineers, Military Department, dated 16 April 1839, submitted to Lieutenant-Colonel Ed...
This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 8 dated 16 January 1857. The enclosures are dated 9-16 January 1857. The papers comprise the following: A summary by the Secretary to Gover...
Supplying the Bombay Division of the Army of the Indus During the British-led Invasion of Afghanistan
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Copies of correspondence and other papers, chiefly comprising communications between Henry Pottinger, Resident in Sinde [Sindh, also spelled Scinde in this volume], and the Government of India, Bombay [Mumbai], regarding his arrangements for obtaining and transporting stores and supplies for the...