SKELETON MAP OF BAKHTIĀRI COUNTRY Showing routes and chief rivers
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The skeleton map shows Bakhtiāri Country in south-western Persia depicting routes and chief rivers in the region. It is found in the Military Report on S. W. Persia, Vol. III. Bakhtiāri Country North of Kārūn River compiled in the Division of the Chief of the Staff, Army Head Quarters, India. Ro...
‘Plan of villages CHAH-HAQ and MIAN DASHT CHAHAR-RAHI PUNITIVE EXPEDITION APRIL, 1918’
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The map shows a plan prepared for the General Staff India, of the villages Chah-Haq and Mian Dasht which were the target of a ‘punitive attack’ by British military forces in April 1918. The map also gives the location of features such as old garden walls, ruins, graves tower, and the distances t...
‘Plan 6. Panorama from Fort Snipe to illustrate first phase of the operations against Amara’
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Imprint: Ordnance Survey, 1921. Distinctive Features: View from Fort Snipe at the Tigris River bend near Qurna drawn from plan prepared by G.S. India; landmarks labelled for reference with position and number of Turkish forces reported.
The plan accompanies MILITARY REPORT on PERSIA Vol. IV Part I. and shows a station yard at Duzdap [Zahedan] in eastern Persia, indicating railway lines, sidings and buildings. The plan has been corrected up to 31 March 1920, and bears a printing statement which reads 'Simla Drawing Office. No. ...
'Signalling and Heliograph Posts between CHAHBAR AND GEH.'
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The map accompanies MILITARY REPORT on PERSIA Vol. IV Part I. and shows a region of southern and eastern Persia, indicating short and long distance signalling and heliograph posts between Chahbar [Chahabar] and Geh [Nīkshahr] and points further north. Also shows roads and hydrology. The map bea...
'Sketch map shewing communications between KERMAN and SAIDABAD.'
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The map is a General Staff India publication marked for official use only, and accompanies MILITARY REPORT on PERSIA Vol. IV Part I. The map shows a region of southern and eastern Persia, indicating roads, paths and heliograph transmitters between Kerman and Saidabad [Sirjan]. The map bears a p...
‘Sketch Map of Southern Persia showing the main Trade Routes and the relative Positions of the Nomad Tribes.’
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Map of Persia [Iran] printed in black, showing: coastlines; frontiers; river systems; principal towns; marshes; and deserts. The region’s main trade routes are printed as solid red lines. Names of the nomadic tribes of the region are also printed in red. Persia’s land frontiers are shaded green.
'Report from General Sir J. E. Nixon, K.C.B., Commanding I.E.F. "D." on the Operations at Dilwar 10th-16th August 1915'
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This confidential report is published by the General Staff, India, and consists of a letter from General Sir John Eccles Nixon, Commanding Indian Expeditionary Force D, to the Chief of the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India, and encloses a report by Major C E H Wintle, 96th Berar Infantry, ...
‘Military report on south-west Persia, including the provinces of Khúzistán (Arabistan), Luristán and part of Fars.’
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Report marked strictly confidential, prepared in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General’s Department in India, by the Assistant Quarter Master General, Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Sever Bell, Royal Engineers. The volume was published by the Government Central Branch P...
