This item consists of a despatch to the Secret Committee, 18 July 1839, from John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government, Bombay [Mumbai], containing a series of numbered enclosures. The despatch itself (not included) is numbered 1 and is followed by an abstract of contents, numbered 2....
Sind Affairs: Matters Relating to Afghanistan, Kelat and Persia
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This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 2 dated 2 January 1857. The enclosures are dated 11-16 December 1856. The papers chiefly comprise two letters from Lieutenant-Colonel John J...
The volume comprises correspondence, telegrams, summaries, reports, notes and other papers concerning the support given by Britain to the tribes of South Arabia [present-day Yemen] in 1917, chiefly in relation to Britain’s principal wartime aim of ousting the Turks [Ottoman Empire] from the regi...
Coll 20/39 'Muscat: Tours of Political Agent; General Situation in Oman; Including assistance to Sultan of Muscat - RAF support'
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Correspondence, notes, and minutes relating to the situation in the interior of Oman. The papers cover the following matters: the Sultan's ambition to assert his authority over the tribes of the interior of Oman due to the Imam's ill health the question of what military (arms and personnel) supp...
