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IOR/L/PS/5/410, ff 431-491
- Record Id:
- 041-004207297
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000538832
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100141869286.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100145096908.0x000003
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/5/410, ff 431-491
- Title:
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Aden and Red Sea Affairs
- Scope & Content:
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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 84 of 1842, dated 18 July 1842.
The enclosed papers comprise minutes, correspondence, and memoranda, and concern affairs in Aden and the Red Sea. The correspondence is principally between Stafford Bettesworth Haines, the Political Agent at Aden; Lieutenant-Colonel Stratford Powell, Adjutant General of the Army, Bombay; Captain Robert Oliver, Superintendent of the Indian Navy; the Government of Bombay; and the Government of India.
Several matters are covered by the papers, including:
- Affairs within the Aden Settlement and Protectorate, including relations with the tribes in the hinterland
- The status of military forces at Aden and the need to strengthen fortifications
- Affairs at Mussowah [Massawa], Tedjoura [Tadjoura], and Mocha, including the plan to depose the Ruler of Mocha by the Ottomans, with British assistance
- Turkish non-observance of the obligations of the commercial treaty between the Ottomans and the British [Treaty of Balta Liman, 1838] at various Red Sea ports.
- 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
040-000539256
041-004207297 - 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/5/410 : 'ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY', Vol 48
IOR/L/PS/5/410, ff 431-491 : Aden and Red Sea Affairs - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0005]/036-000538832[0013]/037-000539208[0048]/040-000539256[0004]/041-004207297
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item (61 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100145096908.0x000003
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1842
- End Date:
- 1842
- Date Range:
- 18 Jul 1842
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former External References:
- No. 84 of 1842
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)