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Letter No. 440: Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf,...
Catalogue reference: IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 205-206
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- IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 205-206
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- Letter No. 440: Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, to His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Tehran
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Date (When the record was created)
- 25 Nov 1850
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Samuel Hennell states that on the morning of 22 November 1850, Sheik Houssein embarked on board his bugla [buggalow], which is now lying at anchor in the inner roads. Hennell reports that at about noon, on the same day, a detachment of 200 sirbaz [foot soldiers], under the command of Jaffer Kooly Khan, occupied the fort and defences of Bushire without any opposition.
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- British Library: Asian and African Studies
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- 2 folios
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Unrestricted
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/51043683-e0f2-423b-ac0a-0312c8f52c7e/
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IOR/R/15/1
Political Residency, Bushire
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This record is held at British Library: Asian and African Studies
Within the fonds: IOR/R
India Office Records transferred later through official channels
Within the sub-fonds: IOR/R/15
Records of the British Residency and Agencies in the Persian Gulf
Within the series: IOR/R/15/1
Political Residency, Bushire
Within the sub-series: IOR/R/15/1/119-198
Political Residency, Bushire: correspondence bound in subject compilations
Within the sub-sub-series: IOR/R/15/1/119-144
Subject compilations: letters received and letters sent
Within the file: IOR/R/15/1/121
Vol 166: 1850 Persia
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Letter No. 440: Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, to His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Tehran