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Aden Affairs [‎564r] (79/104)

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Ref: IOR/L/PS/5/375, ff 526-576

The record is made up of 1 item (50 folios). It was created in May 1839. 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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Copies of correspondence and minutes relating to affairs in Aden subsequent to the capture of the port by the British in January 1839.

The papers notably cover:

  • Report (ff 529-550) of Captain Robert Foster, Engineers, Military Department, dated 16 April 1839, submitted to Lieutenant-Colonel Edward M Wood, Military Secretary to the Government, Bombay [Mumbai], comprising: detailed plan for the fortification, development and settlement of Aden, including defences against attacks from the interior of Yemen and by sea; location of gun batteries and cantonments; plans for a new town; and promotion of trade and commerce
  • An analysis of Captain Foster's report, by Major J P Lester, Artillery, and Major [C?] Waddington, Engineer (ff 561-572)
  • Plan to convey the three captured large brass Turkish guns on HMS Wellesley to Trincomalee for onward transport to England and presentation to Queen Victoria
  • Establishing a boundary between Egyptian possessions in Yemen and British interests in the Cape of Aden
  • Location and forwarding of the Sultan of Aden’s colours (flag) captured at his palace, for transport to Bombay and onwards to England.

The principal correspondents are: Foster; John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government, Bombay; and Thomas Herbert Maddock, Officiating Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General.

There is a note before the papers commence stating: ‘Enclosure in Bombay Secret Letters No. 68, dated 18th May 1839, is missing from this collection’.

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IOR/L/PS/5/375, ff 526-576
Title
Aden Affairs
Pages
526r:526v, 527ar:527av, 527r:576v
Author
East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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