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1. IOR/F/4/1701/68745

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1701/68745
Title:
‘Euphrates Steam Expedition’
Scope & Content:
This item consists mostly of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, letters to and from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. It is the first of two items on the subject of the Euphrates expedition of 1835-37 (the other item is IOR/F/4/1701/68746). The item c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Oct 1836-17 Dec 1836
Extent:
1 item (63 folios)

2. IOR/F/4/2260/114582

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2260/114582
Title:
‘Turkish Arabia Surveys and Map of the countries bordering on the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris – ’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, memoranda, and minutes, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Henry Rawlinson, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq]; Lieutenan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Feb 1844-27 Mar 1848
Extent:
1 item (31 folios)

3. IOR/L/MAR/C/574

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/C/574
Title:
Euphrates expedition
Scope & Content:
Volume containing correspondence related to the Euphrates expedition of 1835-36, a survey of the navigability of the Euphrates River as part of a possible overland route between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean. The correspondence covers: the overland journey from Sovedia [Samandağ] to Bir...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Nov 1834-23 Jul 1841
Extent:
1 volume (570 folios)

4. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/4
Title:
Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917
Scope & Content:
This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume III, Central Mesopotamia with Sourthern Kurdistan and the Syrian Desert (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, January, 1917), covering the Tigris and Euphrates from Baghdad and Fellūjeh [Fallujah] to Mosul and Meskeneh [Maskanah], the Lesser...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917
Extent:
1 volume (214 folios)

5. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/5

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/5
Title:
'Supplement to Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III'
Scope & Content:
This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Corrections and Additions to Volume III: Central Mesopotamia with Southern Kurdistan and the Syrian Desert (Naval Staff Intelligence Department: June, 1918). It supplements Volume III (IOR/L/MIL/17/41/4) which includes routes along the middle Tigris and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918
Extent:
1 volume (115 folios)

6. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/6

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/6
Title:
Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. IV. 1917
Scope & Content:
This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume IV, Northern Mesopotamia and Central Kurdistan (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, April, 1917), covering Mesopotamia north of the line joining Rowanduz, Mosul, Meskeneh [Maskanah], and Aleppo, up to Van, Bitlis, Diarbekr, and Mar‘ash. The...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917
Extent:
1 volume (263 folios)

7. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/54, p 12A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/54, p 12A
Title:
‘Fig. 1 Advance of the Euphrates-Tigris delta since early historic times (after maps of de Morgan)’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Map of the Tigris-Euphrates Delta produced to illustrate the geology of Mesopotamia and surrounding region based on Jacques de Morgan’s research. Shows the advance of delta over the time with the Persian Gulf’s coast in time of Sennacherib B.C. by pecked line; the coastlin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918
Extent:
1 map

8. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/73, p 52a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/73, p 52a
Title:
‘Plan 6. Panorama from Fort Snipe to illustrate first phase of the operations against Amara’
Scope & Content:
Imprint: Ordnance Survey, 1921. Distinctive Features: View from Fort Snipe at the Tigris River bend near Qurna drawn from plan prepared by G.S. India; landmarks labelled for reference with position and number of Turkish forces reported.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1921
Extent:
1 map

9. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/131

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/131
Title:
Summary of correspondence relative to the administration of the Port of Basrah and measures for the control of the shipping traffic in Mesopotamia.
Scope & Content:
This secret summary was compiled by the Army Department, War Section Case and printed in Simla in September 1919. It contains letters and telegrams sent from 11 December 1915 to 14 August 1916 between the officers of the Government of India and the Director-General of Port Administration and Riv...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1916
Extent:

1 volume (66 folios)

10. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/133
Title:
Summary of correspondence relative to surveying operations and river conservancy in Mesopotamia
Scope & Content:
This secret summary was compiled by the Army Department, War Section Case and printed in Simla in September 1916. It contains letters and telegrams sent from 10 February 1915 to 16 May 1916 between the officers of the Government of India, the Director of the Royal India Marine and the Director...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Sep 1916
Extent:

1 volume (48 folios)