Letter no.1176 of 1857 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Commander Felix Jones, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter is a covering letter, enclosing an extract of paragraph 11 of despatch no.8 of 1857 (folio 296) from the Court of Directors, dated 14 January 1856, relating to the capture by the British authorities of a vessel under Turkish colours carrying twelve slaves. The extract notes that, thoug...
‘Map showing (A) Air Routes, established and projected; (B) Islands in the Persian Gulf; (C) Boundaries of Kuwait and Trucial Area. Map II'
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Imprint: Printed at the War Office, October 1928. Geographical Section. General Staff. No. 3869. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by gradient tints and spot heights. Classified "Secret". Shows various air routes with established aerodromes, proposed refuelling and emergency stations. I...
‘Plan of the empty land situated at Qadhibia (outskirt of Manama) – Harbour of Bahrain – which has been sold by the Government of Bahrain to the Government of Great Britain’
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Distinctive Features: A tracing of a plan showing in red the extent of land at Qadhibia, south of Manama, acquired by the British Government for the purposes of a naval base. Area outlined and hatched red shows land leased to the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. Private properties labelled with owner...
Rough Sketch Showing Dispositions at the Battle of Injair
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The map shows the primary troop movements and encampments of the Battle of Injair [Abar Nuqayr] that took place on 5 October 1929 between the forces of the Ikhwan and Ibn Sa'ud. The map also identifies the location of the Injair wells and what appear to be two elevated areas. The map is enclos...
This file contains correspondence related to the administration of the Customs House in Bahrain from 1914 until 1929. The earlier correspondence relates to a disagreement between Shaikh Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa and Bin Saud regarding tariff charges on goods entering and leaving Bahrain from the ...
File contains correspondence related to hostilities that occurred between the forces of Shaikh Abdullah bin Qassim Al Thani of Qatar and the Al Naim tribe that took place in June and July 1937. At this time, the Al Naim tribe was allied to the Al Khalifa ruling family of Bahrain who claimed Zu...
This file consists of correspondence relating to the prolonging of the Muscat Commercial Treaty of 1891 for a further period of one year. The correspondence discusses issues of extra-territoriality; implications for Morocco and British rights; municipal taxes; tariff; taxation of British subject...
The volume contains correspondence relating to the signing of a new treaty between Great Britain and the Sultan of Muscat 'to replace the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation signed at Muscat on the 19th March, 1891, which terminates on the 11th February, 1939.' The new treaty consisted...
The volume consists of letters (in English and Arabic), telegrams, memoranda, handwritten notes, a draft of a Najdi passport and a copy of an official Najdi passport. The majority of the correspondence is between the Political Resident in Bushire (Arthur Trevor, later Stuart Knox); the Political...
The file relates to the development of formal communications between Najd and Bahrain, and the wider Gulf and Indian region. The first of two items in the file is a letter (dated 28 January 1932) from the Special Secretary to ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd) King ...
