‘LETTERS FROM PERSIAN GULF WITH INDEX, JULY-SEP 1871’, Vol 18
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The volume consists of despatches to the Duke of Argyll, Secretary of State for India, from Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, dated 3 July-23 September 1871. The despatches contain enclosures consisting of correspondence sent and received by the Political Resident, dated 20 Ap...
File 345/1908 Pt 2 'Mohammerah: situation. Sheikh's dispute with the Vali of Basra. decoration for Sheikh. renewed assurances to Sheikh.'
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Correspondence including telegrams, hand written letters and printed enclosures, discusses an attack by a Turkish gun-boat on a village - Zain, belonging to the Shaikh of Mohammerah - which lay on the Turkish bank of the Shatt al-Arab waterway. The correspondence outlines the circumstances that ...
Coll 5/6 ‘Muscat-Aden Air Route: Survey of Masirah Island’
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The file is concerned with the establishment of facilities along the southern coast of Oman for a proposed Muscat-Aden air route. It predominantly consists of reports on expeditions to establish (or repair) landing grounds and petrol storage facilities at the following locations: Masirah Island,...
Status of the Islands of Tamb, Little Tamb, Abu Musa, and Sirri
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Document outlining the status of the Islands of Tamb, Little Tamb, Abu Musa, and Sirri. It includes the following: an introduction to the status of the islands; a history of the islands prior to 1887; the occupation of Sirri by Persia, 1887; the temporary Persian occupation of Abu Musa and Tamb,...
Arms, Ammunition and Three Lacs of Rupees for Dost Mahomed Khan
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This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a secret despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secret Committee, Number 57 of 1856, dated 8 November 1856. The enclosures are numbered 3-11 and are dated 10 October to 5 November 1856. They mostly consist of c...
The Arrival of a British Field Force in the Persian Gulf
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This item comprises a copy of [extracts of] an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee: Bombay Secret Letter No. 14 of 1838, dated 1838. Annotated ‘Received via Marseilles 26 October 1838’. The letters in the enclosure are dated 18 June-5 J...
The Indus steam flotilla, Scinde and Luss, Afghanistan and Bussora
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This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 38 of 1840, dated 22 June 1840. The enclosures are numbered 3-90 and are dated 10 August 1839 to 22 June 1840. Enclosure numbers 4, 6-8, 10, 12-1...
‘Measures adopted for effecting the suppression of the Slave Trade’
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Enclosure nos. 2-23 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 30 November 1841. The enclosures are dated 11 July-27 November 1841. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to the trade in enslaved persons in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf...
Military Affairs in Scinde and Beloochistan and Elsewhere in Asia
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This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 35 of 1842, dated 1 April 1842. The enclosures are numbered 3-84 and are dated 10 December 1841 to 31 March 1842. They mainly consist of correspo...
‘Removal of the Coal Depot from the Island of Karrack’
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Enclosures no. 2-7 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay, dated 26 August 1844. The enclosures are dated 25 June-26 August 1844. The enclosures consist of correspondence relating to arrangements for the removal of the British Coal Depot from Karrack [Kharg], and plans ...
