Extract of a Letter from Constantinople to Baghdad [2r] (3/4)
The record is made up of 1 item (2 folios). It was created in 20 Nov 1798. 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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A translated extract of a letter from Coja Reuben ibn Saleh [Khāwja Rūbīn bin Ṣāliḥ] to Coja Abdullah ibn Eussof [Khāwja ‘Abdullāh bin Yūsuf] in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Constantinople [Istanbul] and dated 20 November 1798.
The letter forwards news from Cairo received in Constantinople. It reports that, following unrest after the imposition of a poll tax, General Napoleon Bonaparte was attacked by a man from Barbary [North Africa], that a large number of French occupation forces were killed by the inhabitants of Cairo while the rest have retreated from the city, and that the Kia A deputy or lieutenant of the governor in Ottoman Iraq, with additional responsibilities as a high-ranking provincial judge. [deputy] of Beikir Pashaw [Abū Bakr Pāshā or Ebubekir Paşa, Ottoman Governor of Egypt] has taken control of a fortress in Cairo.
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- Extract of a Letter from Constantinople to Baghdad
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- 2r:2v
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