The Subsidy Paid Since 1861 by the Ruler of Zanzibar to the Ruler of Muscat
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Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 100 of 1869, dated 20 March 1869, with an enclosure numbered 2, dated 10 March 1869. The enclosure consists of a letter from the Secretary to the Government of Bombay to the Secretary to the Gove...
'Letter from Sir Harford Jones Baronet to His Excellency Meerza Bozurg, dated the 15 May 1810'
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Copy of a letter from HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia [Iran], Sir Harford Jones, to the Vizier of the Crown Prince of Persia, Meerza Bozurg [Mīrzā Buzurg], dated 15 May 1810. The letter is in reply to Meerza Bozurg's letter, received by Jones on 14 May 1810 (IOR/L/...
Copy of a Letter from Jean Raymond to Govenor-General of Isle de France, Capitaine Général De Caen
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Copy of a letter in French from Jean Raymond to the Governor-General of the Isle de France [Mauritius] Capitaine Général De Caen [Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen], of 31 January 1809. This letter was part of the papers seized from French courier Jean Robbio at Bushire by Stephen Babington, in cha...
Confidential Papers Acquired by the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, from his Secret Informant at the Camp of the Prince Royal of Persia, Abbas Mirza
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Confidential papers acquired by the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, from his secret informant at the camp of the Prince Royal, Abbas Mirza [Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār] (see IOR/L/PS/9/71/35). The document contains the subst...
Coll 7/37 'Afghanistan: sale of 25,000 1914 pattern rifles from War Office stocks and 7 million rounds of ammunition from Government of India stocks; negotiations with Afghan Government'
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This file is a continuation of Collection 7/36, reference IOR/L/PS/12/2203.It contains correspondence between the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Secretary of State for India, HM Minister at Kabul, the War Office, the Government of India Foreign and Political (later External Affairs)...
En route to interview the Viceroy of yun-kuei. The first British uniform in Yun-nan city. Understand the city wall, inside. Photographer: Wingate, Alfred Woodrow Stanley
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Procession posed in front of the city walls of Kunming, the leading figures bearing a sedan chair, in front of which Wingate stands, in uniform. Wingate arrived in Kunming on 8 February 1899, and was obliged to wait for about 12 days before being granted an interview with Sung-fan, Viceroy of Yü...
En route to interview the Viceroy of yun-kuei. The first British uniform in Yun-nan city. Understand the city wall, inside. Photographer: Wingate, Alfred Woodrow Stanley
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Procession posed in front of the city walls of Kunming, the leading figures bearing a sedan chair, in front of which Wingate stands, in uniform. Wingate arrived in Kunming on 8 February 1899, and was obliged to wait for about 12 days before being granted an interview with Sung-fan, Viceroy of Yü...
The 'guardians' of Yun-nan city ready to fire the two-man gun or jingall. (These are the men whom the invader will have to encounter). Photographer: Wingate, Alfred Woodrow Stanley
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Group of Chinese soldiers posed on the verandah of a house, with the guns in the firing position. One man holds the stock, aims and fires the weapon, while resting the massive barrel on the shoulder of the man standing in front.
The 'guardians' of Yun-nan city ready to fire the two-man gun or jingall. (These are the men whom the invader will have to encounter). Photographer: Wingate, Alfred Woodrow Stanley
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Group of Chinese soldiers posed on the verandah of a house, with the guns in the firing position. One man holds the stock, aims and fires the weapon, while resting the massive barrel on the shoulder of the man standing in front.
Ta-peng-chiang. Ferry over the Me-kong on the Wei-yuan - Kun-lung route. From the left bank looking down river. Photographer: Wingate, Alfred Woodrow Stanley
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View downriver, with a settlement of houses on the riverbank on the far side above the ferry landing (where a large group of porters are gathered at the water's edge. Behind the steep wooded hillside rises from the river.
