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5921. IOR/L/PS/18/B110

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B110
Title:
A Memorandum on the Possible Occupation by France of Sheikh Said
Scope & Content:
A memorandum written by Edmund Neel, Political and Secret Department, India Office, and an addendum, in which is discussed the possibility of a French occupation of Turkish-held Sheikh Said [Ra’s Shaykh Sa‘īd], on the south-western tip of the Arabian Peninsula. A sketch map (f 7) accompanies a r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1897
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

5922. IOR/L/PS/18/B110/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B110/1
Title:
Sheikh Said. Memorandum in Continuation of Departmental Memorandum of 7th March 1893. (With Sketch Map.)
Scope & Content:
A memorandum written by Edmund Neel, Political and Secret Department, India Office, in continuation of a previous memorandum [IOR/L/PS/18/B60], in which the Resident at Aden is urged to ascertain the present situation at Sheikh Said [Ra’s Shaykh Sa‘īd] following fears that the French Government ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Apr 1897
Extent:

1 item (5 folios)

5923. IOR/L/PS/18/B110/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B110/2
Title:
Addendum to Memorandum on Sheikh Said, Dated 9 April 1897.
Scope & Content:
An addendum, which reproduces a report written by Commander Alfred Paget, RN, on 11 September 1894, describing the Turkish position of Bab-el-Mandeb opposite to Perim Island, and giving a summary of relevant historical events from 1868. The addendum also provides the opinion of Lewis Anthony Beau...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 May 1897
Extent:

1 item (1 folio)

5924. IOR/L/PS/18/B112

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B112
Title:
Note on the Turkish Fort at Fao on the Shat-el-Arab. (With Sketch Map of the Shat-el-Arab.) 1883 to 1897.
Scope & Content:
A memorandum of the events and correspondence relating to the Turkish construction of a fort at Fao on the Shat-el-Arab. The memorandum reproduces a number of representations made by the British Government both directly to the Turkish Porte and through the Persian Government, objecting to the con...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 Jun 1897
Extent:

1 file (9 folios)

5925. IOR/L/PS/18/B112, f 19

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B112, f 19
Title:
The Shat-Al-'Arab. Traced from the Admiralty Chart.
Scope & Content:
A map showing the region around the mouth of the Shat-Al-Arab river and its course as far as Basrah, indicating the location of the Turkish-built fort at Fao. The map also indicates hydrology, vegetation, settlements and water depths with soundings. Published by the Intelligence Division, War O...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1897
Extent:
1 map

5926. IOR/L/PS/18/B118

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B118
Title:
Mem: Conclusion of the Declaration with France as to Muscat in 1862 and the acquisition of Gwadar by Muscat.
Scope & Content:
A memorandum explaining that Lord Canning, Viceroy and Governor General of India, had arbitrated between the two sons of Sultan Syud Saeed [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd]upon his death. The two sons agreed the division of their inheritance between them as Sultans of Zanzibar and Muscat resp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jan 1899
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

5927. IOR/L/PS/18/B119

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B119
Title:
Memorandum by Sir W. Lee-Warner on the Lease to France of a Coaling Station in Muskat Territory - Statement of our Case (Political No. 1837/99).
Scope & Content:
A memorandum describing how it had emerged that the Sultan of Muskat had granted the French a concession to establish a coaling station on his territory, and stating that the Sultan had only produced the text of the concession upon threat of bombardment by the British. The memorandum goes on to d...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1899
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

5928. IOR/L/PS/18/B125

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B125
Title:
‘Prevention of the slave trade in the Persian Gulf: question of increased facilities for passing under the British flag.’
Scope & Content:
Printed correspondence relating to the prevention of the slave trade in the Persian Gulf, with particular reference to the persistence of the slave trade at Muscat under the French flag, and proposals for increasing facilities for vessels to sail under the British flag. The correspondence compr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jan 1899-10 Oct 1899
Extent:

2 folios

5929. IOR/L/PS/18/B126

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B126
Title:
'TURKISH JURISDICTION IN THE ISLANDS AND WATERS OF THE PERSIAN GULF, AND ON THE ARAB LITTORAL'
Scope & Content:
Memorandum written by Trevor John Chicheley Plowden, Under Secretary to the Foreign Department, Government of India, 21 Mar 1879, and published 25 March 1879 in Lahore by the Punjab Government. The memorandum addresses the question of Turkish jurisdiction in the islands and waters of the Persi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Apr 1879
Extent:

1 file (14 folios)

5930. IOR/L/PS/18/B127

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B127
Title:
Koweit
Scope & Content:
Memorandum, written by Colin George Campbell, 31 December 1900, about Koweit [Kuwait], including a brief historical introduction and detailed information for the years 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, and 1900. Topics discussed include Mubarak al-Sabah [Mubārak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ] having murdered his fat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1900
Extent:

6 folios

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