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Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company [‎1v] (2/4)

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The record is made up of 1 item (2 folios). It was created in 10 May 1827-9 Jul 1827. 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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Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez [Tabriz], 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 May 1827, which was received from the Foreign Office on 9 July 1827. The letter originally enclosed a copy of Macdonald Kinneir’s dispatch No. 46 to the Chief Secretary to the Supreme Government of India, George Swinton (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/70/226). In the letter, Macdonald Kinneir reports that 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] has separated his armed forces to deploy them along the River Aras, and details the gathering of the Shah of Persia’s army, in preparation for the advance of the Russian army [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828]. Macdonald Kinneir includes estimates of the size of the armies of Abbas Meerza and the Shah, giving a breakdown of the composition of their forces

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Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company [‎1v] (2/4), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/9/70/225, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100128077136.0x000003> [accessed 30 August 2024]

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Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company
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