Letter from Major William Monteith, in Tabriz, to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir
Date:
1827/1827
Description:
Abstract: Letter from Major William Monteith, in Tabriz, to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, of 26 October 1827. In the letter, Monteith reports that he was unable to effect the removal of the British detachment at Tabriz before the occupation of the city by Russian troops led by Prince Aristoff [Georgii Yevseevich Eristov]. Monteith also details the surrender of the city to the Russians, his communications with Prince Aristoff, and the capture of Aliar Khan [Allāh Yār Khān Qājār Davallū, Āṣaf al-Dawlah, the Grand Vizier of the Shah of Persia]. Included in the letter is a note, in French, from Mr I Schaunbourg to Monteith, requesting that Monteith inform Macdonald Kinneir of the events in Tabriz and request his further instructions.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 10, in Macdonald Kinneir’s dispatch No. 73 to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton, of 1 November 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/84).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)