Intelligence report, entitled ‘Newsletter', dated 11 May 1839, covering: Peshawur [Peshawar]; the Army of the Indus; (chiefly regarding its approach to Candahar [Kandahar]); Upper Scinde [Sindh]; Joudhpore [Jodhpur]; Jhansi; Bithoor [Bithur]; Nipal [Nepal]; Ava [Inwa]; and Items of General Intel...
The item is comprised of manuscript copies of secret letters and despatches concerning British relations with Arab tribes in the hinterland of Aden and discussion of contingencies in the event of armed intervention by the British. Topics discussed include: The adoption of a policy of retaliatio...
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 94 of 1843, dated 29 December 1843. The enclosures are numbered 3-12 and are dated 25 November to 29 December 1843. The correspondence relates ...
This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 54 of 1850, dated 17 October 1850. The enclosure is numbered 3 and dated 15 August 1850. The enclosure includes copies of despatches from the...
Enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 32 of 1847, dated 31 March 1847. The enclosures are dated 20 to 27 January 1847 and contain correspondence between the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq] and Her Majesty’s Consu...
General Orders. Head Quarters. Army of the Indus. Camp Larkana 4th March 1839
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Copy of General Orders issued by Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Ronald Macdonald, Military Secretary, and Deputy Adjutant General HM Forces Bombay [Mumbai]. The orders concern the organisation and command structure of the Army of the Indus, henceforth to be under overall command of Lieutenant-Gene...
Enclosure no. 9 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay, dated 1 December 1842. The enclosure is dated 2 November 1842. A note attached to folio 372 states that ‘(Enclosures Nos 2-8 are missing)’. The enclosure contains an account by Captain Charles Delamain, commanding ...
Papers relating to a military expedition in Eusufzyee
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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 1 of 1850, dated 3 January 1850. The enclosed papers, dated from 12 to 31 December 1849, concern military operations against villages in the E...
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 44 of 1840, dated 30 June 1840. The enclosures are dated 7 May to 30 June 1840. The enclosures consist of correspondence relating to affairs at ...
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 55 of 1840, dated 19 August 1840. The enclosures are numbered 3-24 and are dated 6 July to 15 August 1840. The enclosures mostly consist of corr...