Letter no.318 of 1853 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government, Bombay
IOR/R/15/1/138, f 213
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The record is made up of 1 folio. It was created in 10 Oct 1853. 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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The letter gives details of the despatch of the steam frigate Queen from Bushire to Bussora [Basra], with 60,000 Mahomed Shah Kraus, for transfer to the river steamer Comet and transfer to the Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. political agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Baghdad. For its return 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. , Kemball writes that the Queen will have on board the fifteen manumitted slaves remaining at Bassidore [Bāsa‘īdū].
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- Letter no.318 of 1853 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government, Bombay
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- 213r:213v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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