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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1260] (1415/1782)
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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1260
Agent from the town escape capture by the Persians, and in the contrary case to
Bombay ^ make the best of his way to the
Presidency
The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent.
; but the operations were
15th July protracted, and in the end he did not wait for their conclusion. On May
the 12th* H.M.S. " Seahorse " of '20 guns, Captain Farmer, entered the
roadstead at Bushehr, convoying a large Bengal ship destined for
Basrah; and in this manner the number of vessels in port %ing
the British flag was increased to nine,—the " Success it should be
observed, had left for India on the 1st of May with despatches,—and
some Persians professed uneasiness lest the British should attack the
town by way of creating a diversion in favour of their friends the Turks.
On the 24'th of May, Captain Farmer, who had received orders from
his Commodore, Sir Edward Hughes, to assist the representatives of
the East India Company wherever he might meet with them, tendered
his services for convoying to Basrah all or any of the ships at Bushehr
intended for that place; but his offer was courteously declined by
Mr. Moore. At length, on the evening of July 15th, all the British
vessels then remaining at Bushehr except the " Drake " sailed for Bombay
in company with H. M. S. "Seahorse^, the commander of which had
promised to afford them his protection against the Marathas. With
the fleet, in the " Eagle/' went Mr. Moore, whose patience was worn
out by confinement on board ship, for he would not land at Bushehr,
and Mr. Parsons in the " Seahorse but Messrs. Latouche and Abraham
were left behind at Bushehr in order that they might return to Basrah
and take charge of the Company's effects there at the earliest available
opportunity. In leaving for India Mr, Moore wrote to the
Mutasallim
During the eighteenth century this was the third most powerful official in Ottoman Iraq (after the Pasha and the Kiya). The title was given specifically to the Governor of Basra.
of Basrah, stating that he was taking the two Turkish ketches with him
to India for the same reason that he had brought them away from
Basrah, viz., to prevent their fallinsr into the hands of the Persians;
and at the same time he advised the
Mutasallim
During the eighteenth century this was the third most powerful official in Ottoman Iraq (after the Pasha and the Kiya). The title was given specifically to the Governor of Basra.
, on account of the
difficulty of returning the vessels to Basrah, to authorise him to sell them
at Bombay on his behalf. In this farewell communication to Sulaiman
Agha the Agent remarked : " The honour that Your Excellency has
" acquired in the gallant defence of Basrah will be remembered to the
latest times. I would that it had been in our power to have assisted
e( you more than we did ; but it was not, of which I doubt not but
* The great Nelfsoir appears to have been a
midshipman
An experienced sailor, but not a commissioned officer.
on the " Seahorse ' at
this time : he was in her from 1773 to 1776, and, in the " ordinary course of cruising in
peace times, he visited every part of the station from Bengal to Bussorab " (Captain
Mahon's Life of Nelson, page [4). Of lis service in the Kast Nelson himself said:
Nothing less tban such a distant voyage oould in the least satisfy my desire of
maritime knowledge ; but he returned to England as an invalid.
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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)
- Arrangement
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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- Title
- 'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iii-v, 1:130, 1:778, iv-r:iv-v, back-i, front-a, back-a, spine-a, edge-a, head-a, tail-a, front-a-i, v-r:v-v, 779:1098, 1131:1146, 1099:1130, 1147:1484, 1489:1496, 1485:1488, 1497:1624, vi-r:vi-v, back-a-i
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