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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Crimean War, 1853-1856

1. IOR/L/MIL/17/16/19

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/16/19
Title:
'Remarks on the Bashi-Bazouks and other irregulars; including brief reflections on the present war. With a sketch of General William Ferguson Beatson, organiser of the Bashi-Bazouks during the Crimean campaign' by Colonel William Ferguson Beatson Laurie
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises information about the Bashi-Bazouks and other irregulars including the following: remarks – discusses the notoriety and character of the Bashi-Bazouks, and their involvement in the Bulgarian atrocities during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877. A brief assessment of Turkish and R...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1877
Extent:

1 volume (10 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 392-409

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 392-409
Title:
Turkish Arabia Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 22 dated 31 March 1856. The enclosures are dated 16 Janurary-5 February 1856. The item comprises letters from Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1856
Extent:
1 item (18 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/142

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/142
Title:
Vol 193: 1854/55 Persia; General
Scope & Content:
This file consists of letters sent from and to the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Bushire. The two officials corresponding on behalf of the Residency are Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, and Herbert Frederick Disbrowe, Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf, who i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jan 1854-20 Feb 1855
Extent:
1 volume (79 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/146

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/146
Title:
Political Department 1854/55 Bushire Residency Persia and Persian Coast
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters mainly received by the Resident in the Persian Gulf regarding Persia and the Persian coast of the Gulf, from the Secretaries to the Government at Bombay Castle. There are also two documents which become part of the file at a later stage, in 1856; they were both proclama...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
Sep 1854-Dec 1856
Extent:
1 file, 6 items (51 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/147

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/147
Title:
Book No. 200 from December 1854 to December 1855
Scope & Content:
The volumes consist of original correspondence sent to and copies of letters sent from the Bushire Residency; the principal correspondents being Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, followed by Captain James Felix Jones as Resident in the Persian Gulf at the time, the Assistant Resident in Charge, H...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jan 1855-15 Dec 1855
Extent:
2 volumes (293 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/154

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/154
Title:
Vol 215: Persia and Persian Coast; Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:
This volume consists mostly of correspondence between the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, and the Secretary to the Government of Bombay. Writing on behalf of the Residency are Commander (James) Felix Jones, Acting Resident (and later in the volume, Resident) in the Persian Gulf...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Feb 1856-25 May 1857
Extent:
1 volume (95 folios)