Copy of Dispatch No. 19 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, at the Royal Camp at Aher, to the Chief Secretary to the Supreme Government of India, George Swinton
Copy of Dispatch No. 19 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, at the Royal Camp at Aher, to the Chief Secretary to the Supreme Government of India, George Swinton
Copy of Dispatch No. 19 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, at the Royal Camp at Aher, to the Chief Secretary to the Supreme Government of India, George Swinton
Date:
1826/1826
Description:
Abstract: Copy of dispatch No. 19 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, at the Royal Camp at Aher [Ahar], to the Chief Secretary to the Supreme Government of India, George Swinton, of 29 September 1826. The dispatch originally enclosed copies of letters to the President of the Board of Control and the Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company (not included in this item). The letter reports the defeat of a Persian army under the command of Mahomed Meerza [Muḥammad Mīrzā], the son of the Prince Royal [Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār], at Shamkhar [Shamkir] by a Russian force led by General Madatoff [General Valerian Madatov]. Macdonald Kinneir gives an account of the battle, and reports the subsequent capture of Gunja [Ganja] by Madatoff. The letter indicates that the Prince Royal has moved to relieve Mahomed Meerza, and also details other military developments in the war between Russia and Persia in the Caucasus [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], including a report on the composition of the whole of the Persian army in the field. A post scriptum details the arrival of a messenger at the Royal Camp who reports the ‘entire defeat’ of the Prince Royal’s army at Gunja.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 1, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 13 October 1826 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/151).Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)