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Defensive organisation: replies to confidential despatch of 9 December 1875 and forwards...

Catalogue reference: CO 321/9/16

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This record is about the Defensive organisation: replies to confidential despatch of 9 December 1875 and forwards... dating from 1876 Mar 28 in the series Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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CO 321/9/16
Date
1876 Mar 28
Description

Defensive organisation: replies to confidential despatch of 9 December 1875 and forwards copy of a report on the subject from Colonel Whitworth Porter, Royal Engineers, commander of the forces in Barbados, who suggests a large increase in the police force and the organisation of an efficient militia. Colonial Office minutes only in item; telegram printed as confidential print, West Indian No. 24 of 1876 (CO 884/3/4).

John Pope Hennessy, Governor in Chief Windward Islands, unnumbered confidential despatch. Folios 117-125.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
4455/1876
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9074840/

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CO 321

Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence

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