Supplying the Bombay Division of the Army of the Indus During the British-led Invasion of Afghanistan [‎616v] (80/114)

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Copies of correspondence and other papers, chiefly comprising communications between Henry Pottinger, Resident in Sinde [Sindh, also spelled Scinde in this volume], and the Government of India, Bombay [Mumbai], regarding his arrangements for obtaining and transporting stores and supplies for the Bombay division of the Army of the Indus advancing from Kurrachee [Karachi] under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir John Keane.

The papers notably cover:

• Obtaining boats, camels, horses and bullocks
• Logistics of moving stores down the line by land and river towards Bukker [Bukkur]
• Reports on the route from Kurrachee to Tatta [Thatta], by Lieutenant Buckle, Indian Navy, and Lieutenant Macleod, Bombay Engineers, and use of the Garrah [Gharo] Creek near the port of Kurrachee, including compass sketches of the route to the Creek (catalogued as sub-items IOR/L/PS/5/375, ff 632 and 633)
• Payment of the Jam of Garrah for British use of the Garrah Creek
• Cost estimate for repairing the Manora Fort [also spelled Munnara, Munara, and Moonarat in this volume] for damage sustained during the bombardment by HMS Wellesley , including drawing of fort (catalogued as sub-item IOR/L/PS/5/375, f 599)
• An account of a potential route from Sonmeanee [Somiani, also spelled Someena and Somanee in this volume] in Beloochistan [Balochistan] via Kelat [Kalat] to the city of Candahar [Kandahar] as described by a horse merchant of Affghanistan [Afghanistan] to Captain W C Harris, Field Engineer with the Sinde Reserve Force, 5 April 1839 (ff 601-613), including a list of places en route and remarks on each one
• Rates and payment of allowances for members of the Poona [Pune] Auxiliary Horse sent and attached to the Resident in Sinde to escort supplies
• Urgent request by Captain William Joseph Eastwick, Officiating Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Upper Sinde, for the assignment of two assistants by the Bombay Government
• Intelligence, with orders, replies and observations, from Lahore, Peshawur [Peshawar], Cabool [Kabul], Shikarpore [Shikarpur], the Army of the Indus, Nipal [Nepal], Ava, and general intelligence (ff 625-631).

The principal correspondents are: Pottinger; and John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government, Bombay.

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1 item (56 folios)

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The papers are not in chronological order.

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English in Latin script

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