Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to Captain Robert Taylor, Resident at Bussorah [Basra]
IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 124-125
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The record is made up of 2 folios. It was created in 29 Jul 1826. 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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Stannus informs Taylor that the fleet of the Imam of Muscat [Sa‘īd bin Sultān Āl Sa‘īd] had been ordered to proceed from Bushire to Bussorah [Basra] to enforce certain financial claims there, either by means of a blockade or a by a direct attack on the Turkish fleet or the town itself. This would cause distress throughout the Gulf by stopping the export of dates, and would reflect badly on the British Government, because of its known influence at Muscat. Stannus would therefore use the powers granted to him by the Imam to warn the commander of the fleet to abstain from any hostile act. Stannus asks Taylor to make representations to the Turkish authorities and people of Bussorah.
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- extract of a letter from the Imam of Muscat to Stannus, dated 12 July 1826, certified as a true translation by Samuel Hennell, Assistant to the Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , concerning the financial claims of himself and his subjects at Bussorah [also spelled Bussora] and the orders given to his fleet.
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Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to Captain Robert Taylor, Resident at Bussorah [Basra], British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 124-125, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100024055009.0x0000b7> [accessed 28 June 2026]
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- IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 124-125
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- Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to Captain Robert Taylor, Resident at Bussorah [Basra]
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- 124r:125v
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