Letters from Jaffa
IOR/L/PS/9/76/145
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The record is made up of 1 item (4 folios). It was created in Dec 1800. 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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This item contains copies of two letters:
1. A report by John Barker, Proconsul in Aleppo, forwarding intelligence received from an informant in Jaffa in December 1800. The report concerns preparations for an expedition against the French occupation forces in Egypt.
2. A letter from Brigadier-General George Koehler to John Barker, sent from the headquarters of the Vizier [Yūsuf Ẓīa al-Dīn Pāshā, Grand Vizier to the Ottoman Sulṭān] at Jaffa and dated 2 December 1800. The letter reports on the state of affairs in the camp of the Vizier, including desertion, plague, shortages, and a false report of a French attack. It also statets that a large body of reinforcements are heading to join the Vizier and asks Barker to forward this news to India and the Red Sea.
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- 1 item (4 folios)
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- English in Latin script
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- 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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- IOR/L/PS/9/76/145
- Date(s)
- Dec 1800 (CE, Gregorian)
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- French Campaign in Egypt and the Levant (1798-1801)Napoleonic Wars (1800-1815)
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- John BarkerGeorge Koehler
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- IOR/L/PS/9/76/145
- Title
- Letters from Jaffa
- Pages
- 1r:4v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence
