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...
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...
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...
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...
