Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, at the Royal Camp on the borders of the Lake of Shahee, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company

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Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, at the Royal Camp on the borders of the Lake of Shahee [Lake Urmia], to the Secret Committee Pre-1784, the Committee responsible for protecting East India Company shipping. Post-1784, its main role was to transmit communications between the Board of Control and the Company's Indian governments on matters requiring secrecy. of the East India Company, of 10 July 1827, which was received from the Foreign Office on 18 September 1827. The letter concerns the ongoing war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], detailing the failure of the Russian siege of Erivan [Yerevan], and the subsequent movement of Russian troops, commanded by General Paskevitch [General Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky], to Nukshirvan [Nakhchivan]. The letter also reports: the onset of disease in the Russian army; the arrest of General Benkendoff [General Konstantin Khristoforovich Benkendorf] for his conduct in battle against the Persians (see IOR/L/PS/9/71/11); and the presence of the Archbishop of Tiflis [Tbilisi] in General Paskevitch’s camp, through whom Paskevitch is purportedly corresponding with the ‘principle Armenians’ in Persia and the adjacent provinces of the Ottoman Empire.

The letter originally enclosed copies of the following documents:

• Macdonald Kinneir’s dispatches Nos. 53 and 54 to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/71/22-23)
• Correspondence between General Paskevitch and Macdonald Kinneir (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/71/24 and 27)
• A letter from General Paskevitch to Abbas Meerza [Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mīrzā A title of honour originally applied to princes, later to military leaders, and later still to secretaries, chieftains, and other ‘gentlemen’. Qājār] (IOR/L/PS/9/71/25)
• A letter from Abbas Meerza to his Vizier (IOR/L/PS/9/71/26).

Extent and format

1 item (4 folios)

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Letter

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/9/71/21

History of this record

Date(s)

10 Jul 1827-18 Sep 1827 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Siege warfareRusso-Persian War (1826-1828)

Places

Erivan

People & organisations

East India Company Envoy to PersiaEast India Company, Court of Directors, Secret Committee

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Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, at the Royal Camp on the borders of the Lake of Shahee, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/9/71/21, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100038378586.0x00038b> [accessed 2 October 2024]

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