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‘Persian Gulf Copies of engagements with the maritime Chiefs in the Persian Gulf for the suppression of the slave trade furnished to the Hon’ble the Court of Directors – Vol: 5’
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This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2280/116915. The correspondent is Major Samuel Hennell, British Resident in the Persian Gulf. It is th...
‘Depredations committed by the Joasmee pirates in violation of the Treaty of Peace concluded with them in 1806. An expedition authorised by the Supreme Government for their suppression.’
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The item consists mostly of copies of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, letters to and from the Governments of Bengal and Bombay. It concerns reports of piracy carried out by the Joasmee [Qawasim], and the deliberations of the governments of Bombay and Bengal ov...
'Persian Gulf. Grounding of Her Majesty's Ship "Fox" off the Island of Seir Aboneide.'
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This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, a political letter from the Government of Bombay. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; and John Croft Hawkins, Commodore Comma...
State of affairs at Muscat in consequence of the Imaum's death And Depredations committed in the Persian Gulph by the Joasmee Pirates.
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This item consists of extracts from political letters received by officials of the Government of Bombay, containing enclosures regarding the political situation at Muscat following the death of the Imaum, Syed Sultaun [Sayyid Sulṭān bin Aḥmad Āl Bū Sa‘īd, also written in the correspondence as Se...
Slave trade carried on between the ports of Cutch & Kattywar and those of Arabia and the Persian Gulf
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This item consists primarily of copies of correspondence, minutes and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, a letter from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] to the East India Company Court of Directors. The item relates to the efforts of the Government of Bombay to suppress the slave trade o...
‘Vol: 3 Proceedings adopted in consequence of the depredations committed by the Joasmee Pirates in the Persian Gulph’
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This item consists mostly of copies of correspondence, minutes and memoranda cited in, or enclosed with, letters to and from the Government of Bombay. It is the third in a series of eight items on the subject of the alleged piracy of the Joasmee [al-Qawāsim, also referred to as Joassmee] (the ot...
Unsettled state of affairs at Muscat and operations against the Joasmee Pirates by the combined forces of the Company and the Muscat Government
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The item consists of correspondence regarding the situation in Muscat after the death in 1804 of the Imam Syed Sultan [Sultan bin Ahmad Al Bu Sa’id] and efforts to counter the naval activities of the Joasmee [Al-Qasimi] in the Gulf. The correspondence is particularly concerned with the capture b...
This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, letters to and from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. It covers a range of topics relating to the Persian Gulf. All of the material in the item dates from 1844-45, except for one letter which ...
