The volume is a Government of India official publication entitled Routes in Persia. Section II. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India by Captain J. Vans Agnew, 3rd Madras Lancers (Simla: printed at the Government Central Printing Office, 1895). ...
Report of the Special Mission to Egypt under Lord Milner, and related papers
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The file contains official correspondence, memoranda, and reports relating to political affairs in Egypt. The correspondents and authors are officials at the Foreign Office (Lord Curzon was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs at the time), War Office, Air Ministry, Admiralty, Colonial Office,...
Turkish Arabia: Being an Account of an Official Tour in Babylonia, Assyria, and Mesopotamia, 1886-87
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This volume is a printed account of the official winter tour of 1886-87 in Babylonia, Assyria and Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) undertaken by Colonel William Tweedie, Bengal Staff Corps, Political Resident in Turkish Arabia (Iraq) and His Majesty's Consul-General at Baghdad. The purpose of the t...
Four constitutionalists hanged by the Russians [at Tabriz]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Copy print, photographed from an original print. 'The names from right to left are as follows: (1) Mirza Ali 'Natik' ('The Orator'); (2) Hajji SDamad 'Khayyat' ('The Tailor'); (3) Mashhadi Kajji Khan; (4) Mashhadi Shukur Kharrazi. Three Russian soldiers and a Persian at...
Four constitutionalists hanged by the Russians [at Tabriz]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Copy print, photographed from an original print. 'The names from right to left are as follows: (1) Mirza Ali 'Natik' ('The Orator'); (2) Hajji SDamad 'Khayyat' ('The Tailor'); (3) Mashhadi Kajji Khan; (4) Mashhadi Shukur Kharrazi. Three Russian soldiers and a Persian at...
The nephews of Sattar Khan [hanged at Tabriz]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Copy print, photographed from an original print. Showing the two hanging men, with a Persian figure standing in the foreground: 'The two nephews of Sattar Khan (the hero of the Siege of Tabriz in 1908-9) were hanged by the Russians in January, 1912. The one on the right...
The nephews of Sattar Khan [hanged at Tabriz]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Copy print, photographed from an original print. Showing the two hanging men, with a Persian figure standing in the foreground: 'The two nephews of Sattar Khan (the hero of the Siege of Tabriz in 1908-9) were hanged by the Russians in January, 1912. The one on the right...