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'Report on the Persian Army compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India by Lieutenant J.A. Douglas 2nd Bengal Lancers' [109r] (7/22)
The record is made up of 1 file (10 folios). It was created in 1892. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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This paper is transmitted for the inform
ation of
by direction of His Excellency tlie Com-
mander-in-Chief in India, and is to be
considered Confidential.
(Need not appear in annual returns).
p. 13
REPORT
PERSIAN ARMY.
INTELLIGENCE BRANCH
OF THE
Lieutenant J. A. DOUGLAS,
2ND BENGAL LANCERS.
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This file is a report on the structure of the Persian Army. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India by Lieutenant James Archibald Douglas, the report gives the British perspective of the strength and weaknesses of the Persian Army.
The report is broken down into: infantry (organization, strength, method of recruiting, armament); semi-regular cavalry (Cossack brigade, Russian officers); irregular cavalry (General Gordon's opinion); artillery (mule batteries, artillery horses); micellaneous bodies (militia, camel artillery, the Austrian corps); recapitulation of strength distribution (breech-loading rifles, Werndl rifles; Berdan rifles, Chassepot rifles, Gobelin rifles, magazine rifles, and breech-loading ammunition); the army's pay; the army's uniforms; the state of the army; fighting campaigns against the Bakhtiaris, Lurs, and Arab tribes.
Included is a slip regarding the custody and disposal of secret documents (f 108).
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- 1 file (10 folios)
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The contents of the file have been arranged chronologically.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 106, and terminates at f 116, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Mss Eur F111/694
- Title
- 'Report on the Persian Army compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India by Lieutenant J.A. Douglas 2nd Bengal Lancers'
- Pages
- 106r:116v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence