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IOR/G/29/20/3
- Record Id:
- 041-004250961
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000177207
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100145259449.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100148761684.0x000001
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/G/29/20/3
- Title:
- PERSIA FACTORY RECORDS: LETTERS FROM BASRA, 1753-1773, PT 3
- Scope & Content:
- This item contains correspondence sent to and received from the East India Company Factory at Bussora [Basra] from 2 September 1765 to 17 August 1773. It contains correspondence relating to the following:
- The destruction of nine Turkish galleys sent against them by the Chaub [Banū Ka‘b], including that of the Captain Bashaw [Kapūdān Pāshā], with stores of gunpowder and ammunition, and a Turkish counterattack, that drove the Chaub into their fort, ‘after making great slaughter’
- The attempt by Captain John Brewer to take the Chaub’s redoubt and a sally by the latter’s cavalry, leading to the death of Brewer and loss of all his ‘Field Peices and Ammunition’
- An express message from Carim Caun [Karīm Khān Zand] demanding the Anglo-Turkish force raise the siege, since ‘the Chaub [Shaikh Salmān bin Sulṭān al-Ka‘bī] & his People were Persian Subjects’, otherwise he would dispatch an ‘innumerable Army’ and make war on the Turks and the English
- The capture and execution of Meer Mahanna [Mīr Muḥannā] by the Mussaleem [Mutasallim of Basra] on the orders of the Pasha, ostensibly to avoid harbouring him or having to surrender him to Carim Caun
- The overthrow of Shaik Ghanum [Shaikh Ghānim bin Salmān al-Ka‘bī] by his brother Daoud [Dawūd bin Salmān al-Ka‘bī] as Shaikh of the Chaub, on account of the former’s adherence to his father’s [Shaikh Salmān] policy of ‘professing subiection to both Turks and Persians, and by that means paying obedience to neither’
- The arrival of William Eaton at Bussora as factor of David Hays of the Levant Company in Aleppo, the third such factor to be dispatched by Hays as observed by the East India Company
- The ‘great preparations’ made by Carim Caun for going to war, including his taking charge of an additional army of 30,000 horsemen and 20,000 footmen, and which might be intended to deter the Russians, Turks, or Achmed Shaw the Offghoon [Aḥmad Shāh Durrānī the Afghān]
- The capture of the ship The Tyger by the gallivats of Bunderick [Bandar-i Rig], which were said to be cruising off Bussora Harbour to intercept any commercial vessels coming from Bengal.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000173250
036-000177207
037-000177223
040-000177229
041-004250961 - Is part of:
- IOR/G : East India Company Factory Records
IOR/G/29 : Factory Records: Persia and the Persian Gulf
IOR/G/29/15-24 : Letters and enclosures received from Bandar 'Abbas (Gombroon) and Basra.
IOR/G/29/20 : PERSIA FACTORY RECORDS: LETTERS FROM BASRA, 1753-1773
IOR/G/29/20/3 : PERSIA FACTORY RECORDS: LETTERS FROM BASRA, 1753-1773, PT 3 - Hierarchy:
- 032-000173250[0029]/036-000177207[0003]/037-000177223[0006]/040-000177229[0004]/041-004250961
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/G
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item (191 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100148761684.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1766
- End Date:
- 1773
- Date Range:
- 2 Sep 1766-17 Aug 1773
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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