The item consists of seven letters from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors. The letters refer to general updates from the Persian Gulf and surrounding regions between August 1852 and February 1853. It is the first in a series of sixteen items on events in the G...
‘WAR DIARY. ARMY HEADQUARTERS, INDIA. […] I.E.F. “D”. Volume 34. PART II. (From 16th to 31st May 1917).’
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The volume contains a chronological list of brief summaries of papers relating to the activities of the Indian Expeditionary Force D (also known as the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force) between 16 and 31 May 1917. This is accompanied by appendices containing copies and extracts of these papers, w...
‘WAR DIARY. ARMY HEADQUARTERS, INDIA. […] I.E.F. “D”. Volume 35. PART I. (From 1st to 15th June 1917).’
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The volume contains a chronological list of brief summaries of papers relating to the activities of the Indian Expeditionary Force D (also known as the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force) between 1 and 15 June 1917. This is accompanied by appendices containing copies and extracts of these papers, w...
Anglo-Persian Relations Regarding the Persian Siege of Herat
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This item comprises a copy of [extracts of] an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee: Bombay Secret Letter No. 4 dated 21 May 1838. Annotated ‘Received via Malta 17 July 1838’. The letters in the enclosure are dated 1 and 19 May 1838. Th...
The Arrival of a British Field Force in the Persian Gulf
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This item comprises a copy of [extracts of] an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee: Bombay Secret Letter No. 14 of 1838, dated 1838. Annotated ‘Received via Marseilles 26 October 1838’. The letters in the enclosure are dated 18 June-5 J...
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 79 of 1841, dated 30 September 1841. The enclosures are dated 14 June-14 September 1841. The principal correspondents are: Captain Samuel Hennell, Resident in t...
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 71 of 1850, dated 3 December 1850. The enclosures are numbered 3-7 and are dated 3 November to 2 December 1850. A note in red ink, dated 1 Novemb...
Letter from HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia, Sir Harford Jones, to David Morier
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Letter from HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia [Iran], Sir Harford Jones, to his secretary David Morier, of 9 June 1810. In the letter Jones requests that Morier remove a dispatch concerning ‘the affair of the Chintz and Tobacco’ from a packet addressed to the Secret C...
Letters from William Digges Latouche to the Court of Directors
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Two letters from William Digges Latouche, Resident at Bussora [Basra], to the Court of Directors for Affairs of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies [East India Company]. The first letter, dated 23 January 1781, forwards intelligence received from India, Muscat,...
Letters from William Digges Latouche to the Court of Directors
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Two letters from William Digges Latouche, Resident at Bussora [Basra], to the Court of Directors for Affairs of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies [East India Company]. The first letter, dated 19 February 1781, covers subjects including: The movements of the ...