Factory Records, Persia, Vol 22, Pt 4 [‎783r] (359/405)

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This volume contains letters sent to and from the East India Company Factory An East India Company trading post. at Bussorah [Basra] between 18 July 1790 and 22 November 1792, and covers the following:

• The victory of the Kia A deputy or lieutenant of the governor in Ottoman Iraq, with additional responsibilities as a high-ranking provincial judge. [Kīyā] over Hodjee Soliman Bey [Ḥādjī Sulaymān Bey al-Shāwī]
• The beginning of operations by General [William] Medows against the Nabob An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. Tippoo [Tipū Sulṭān]
• The journey undertaken by Harford Jones Brydges to Persia [Iran] for the ‘benefit of his health’
• The termination of the dispute subsisting between the British and Spanish courts through a convention
• The passage of Lieutenant Henry Fox Calcraft and William Baxter from Latackia [Latakia] to Bombay [Mumbai]
• The negotiations of the French with the Imaum [Imam] to establish a factory An East India Company trading post. in Muscat
• The reception of Shaik Swiney [Shaikh Thuwaynī bin ‘Abdullāh al-Sa‘dūn] at the Bacha [Pāshā’s] court in Bagdad [Baghdad]
• The resolution of the dispute between the House of Austria and the Ottoman Porte
• The arrival of General Sir Charles Oakley and Governor-General Sir [Charles] Cornwallis at Madras [Chennai]
• The correspondence of Soliman Bacha [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā], Ahmed Kia A deputy or lieutenant of the governor in Ottoman Iraq, with additional responsibilities as a high-ranking provincial judge. [Aḥmad Kīyā] and the Resident
• The fall of Calicut [Kozhikode], Cannanore [Kannur], and Coimbatoor [Coimbatore] to the British
• The capture of the fortresses of Bangulore [Bangalore] and Barwar by Governor-General Cornwallis
• The victory of Governor-General Cornwallis’s forces against those of the Nabob An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. Tippoo
• The departure of Jones for Bombay to inform the President and Council of the situation in Bussorah
• The correspondence of Soliman Bacha with President of Bombay General Robert Abercromby
• The execution of Shaik Gathbaun [Shaikh Ghaḍbān] by Shaik Mobaric [Shaikh Mubārak al-Ka’bī]
• The declaration of war by France against the King of Hungary [Franz II of Habsburg-Lorraine]
• A conflict between the Jewish inhabitants and the English at Bussorah and Jones’s mission to Bagdad.

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1 volume (198 folios)

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English in Latin script

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