'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1082] (1237/1782)
The record is made up of 2 volumes (1624 pages). It was created in 1915. 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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1082
Defeat of
the Egypti
ans in
Zahran, Sep
tember 1814.
Egyptian re
inforcements
and additions
to trans
port.
Great defeat
of the Wah-
habis at Bisal,
13th Janu
ary 1815.
were required for forwarding' supplies to the coast by the Qanah-Qusair
and Cairo-Suez lines. The Harb, from whom local camels were obtained,
refused to let their animals g-o beyond Taif ; and even at Taif there
was often not more than ten days^ supplies for the garrison. Scarcity
prevailed at Kulakh also, and at advanced posts which had been thrown
out in the direction of Zahran.
The fortune of the field also continued adverse to the Egyptians. In
September their best troops, under one of their best commanders, were
surprised and defeated in Zahran by Bakhruj, a chief of the southern
Wahhabis; they lost in this action about 8u cavalry and 800 infantry,
and were obliged to fall back upon Taif; but they brought in with
them about 60 heads of Wahhabis. Meanwhile the Wahhabis and the
tribes favourable to the Egyptians continued to raid each other mutually,
the advantage generally resting with the former.
boon after this disaster, however, the aspect of affairs began to im
prove for the Egyptians. Kight hundred Bedouin horsemen, drawn from
the tribes of the Libyan desert, arrived in Hijaz where half were posted
to Madinah and half to iaif; and they at once proceeded to make forays
on the W ahhabis in the Bedouin manner. In November the Hajj
arrived; the caravan from Syria brought with it 4,000 camels for the
troops, of which ],000 were stopped at Madinah; while from Egypt
there came along with the Mahmal, accompanied on this occasion by
soldiers and officials only, 2,500 additional camels and a reinforce
ment of 1,000 Turkish horsemen. Twelve thousand camels belonging
to the Syrian Hajj were temporarily requisitioned to carry stores from
Jiddah to Makkah.
At length a forward movement began. On the loth of December
1814 the bulk of the infantry, then at Makkah, left for Kulakh; and
on Saturday, the 7 th of January, after a short delay caused by a Wahhabi
excursion towards Qunfidah, Muhammad 'Ali followed with about
1 ,200 cavalry and other troops. He had not gone far when he received
news of the occupation by a Wahhabi army of Bisal, a place between
Taif and Kulakh, where on Thursday, the 12th of January, assisted
by a Bedouin levy under the Sharif Rajah and by a part of the
'Ataibah, he brought them to action. The result of the first day's
fighting was indecisive; but on the second day the Egyptians, having
succeeded by means of a pretended flight in drawing the Wahhabis from
the hillsides on which they were , stationed into the open plain,
achieved a success of which the completeness left nothing to be desired.
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Theses two volumes make up Volume I, Part IA and Part IB (Historical) (pages i-778 and 779-1624) of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , ’Omān and Central Arabia (Government of India: 1915), compiled by John Gordon Lorimer and completed for press by Captain L Birdwood.
Part 1A contains an 'Introduction' (pages i-iii) written by Birdwood in Simla, dated 10 October 1914. There is also a 'Table of Chapters, Annexures, Appendices and Genealogical Tables' (page v-viii) and 'Detailed Table of Contents' (pages ix-cxxx), both of which cover all volumes and parts of the Gazetteer .
Parts IA and IB consist of nine chapters:
- 'Chapter I. General History of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Region' (Part IA, pages 1-396);
- 'Chapter II. History of the ’Omān Sultanate' (Part IA, pages 397-629);
- 'Chapter III. History of Trucial ’Omān' (Part IA, page 630-Part IB, page 786);
- 'Chapter IV. History of Qatar' (Part IB, pages 787-835);
- 'Chapter V. History of Bahrain' (Part IB, pages 836-946);
- 'Chapter VI. History of Hasa' (Part IB, pages 947-999);
- 'Chapter VII. History of Kuwait' (Part 1B, pages 1000-1050);
- 'Chapter VIII. History of Najd or Central Arabia' (Part 1B, pages 1051-1178);
- 'Chapter IX. History of Turkish ’Iraq' (Part 1B, pages 1179-1624).
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- 2 volumes (1624 pages)
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Volume I, Part I has been divided into two bound volumes (1A and 1B) for ease of binding. Part 1A contains an 'Introduction', 'Table of Chapters, Annexures, Appendices and Genealogical Trees' and 'Detailed Table of Contents'. The content is arranged into nine chapters, with accompanying annexures, that relate to specific geographic regions in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The chapters are sub-divided into numbered periods according, for example, to the reign of a ruler or regime of a Viceroy, or are arbitrarily based on outstanding land-marks in the history of the region. Each period has been sub-divided into subject headings, each of which has been lettered. The annexures focus on a specific place or historical event. Further subject headings also appear in the right and left margins of the page. Footnotes appear occasionally at the bottom of the page to provide further details and references.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. The sequence runs through parts IA and IB as follows:
- Volume I, Part IA: The sequence begins on the first folio with text, on number 1, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 456. Total number of folios: 456. Total number of folios including covers and flysheets: 460.
- Volume I, Part IB: The sequence begins on the first folio with text, on number 457, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 878. It should be noted that folio 488 is followed by folio 488A. Total number of folios: 423. Total number of folios including covers and flysheets: 427.
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