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IOR/L/PS/5/445, ff 275-352
- Record Id:
- 041-003948725
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000538832
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100124957648.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100154581908.0x00000d
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/5/445, ff 275-352
- Title:
- Aden Affairs
- Scope & Content:
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This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 106 of 1846, dated 15 September 1846. The enclosures are dated 17 August-15 September 1846.
The papers chiefly cover the military and logistical response to a potential attack on or near Aden by the followers of ‘the fanatic’ Syud Ismaiel [Sayyid Ismā‘īl, also spelled Syed and Sayud, and Ismail, in this item].
The principal correspondents are: Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent, Aden; the Government of Bombay; the Military Board, Bombay; and the Secretary to the Government of India. Also included are numerous minutes of the Governor and President and the members in Council, Bombay, and enclosures to despatches.
The papers notably cover and include the following:
- The movements of Syud Ismaiel and the repulsion of two attacks, on 17 and 26 August, by his supporters on the outposts and near the field works of Aden, including translated copies of two letters, and a short note in both Arabic and English, received by Haines from Sayud Ismail with Haines’s replies (ff 298-299, 308-311)
- The measures undertaken for the conveyance of military stores and food supplies to Aden, including the Military Board’s correspondence with the Commissariat General and the Superintendent of the Indian Navy, and details of items conveyed to Aden on the vessel Queen (ff 340-343, 350)
- A discussion of the possible options for augmenting the military force at Aden during the relief of the regiments currently there, including a proposal by the Commander in Chief of the Army, Poona [Pune] (ff 330-331)
- A discussion of, and responses to, Haines’s suggestions to the Government of Bombay which include: an advance, by an augmented Aden force, into the interior to destroy the properties of ‘those chiefs who have tauntingly annoyed us’; a blockade on the ports of the ‘Fouthili [Faḍlī] and Agrabi [‘Akrabī] chiefs’ during the trading season by the addition of a small armed iron steamer to the Red Sea Squadron; and a bugalow laden with hay to be towed on the next steamer to Aden (ff 305-306).
The last two enclosures, the Bombay Times summary of Intelligence and The Overland Bombay Courier, are noted as ‘Missing 29.10.1906’.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000538832
037-000539208
040-000539291
041-003948725 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/5 : Secret Correspondence with India
IOR/L/PS/5/363-509 : Enclosures to Secret Letters from Bombay
IOR/L/PS/5/445 : 'ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY', Vol 83
IOR/L/PS/5/445, ff 275-352 : Aden Affairs - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0005]/036-000538832[0013]/037-000539208[0083]/040-000539291[0016]/041-003948725
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item (78 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100154581908.0x00000d
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Arabic
English - Scripts:
- Arabic
Latin - Start Date:
- 1846
- End Date:
- 1846
- Date Range:
- 15 Sep 1846
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former External References:
- No. 106 of 1846
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)