Copy of Dispatch No. 55 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, at the Royal Camp at Khoee, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton
Copy of Dispatch No. 55 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, at the Royal Camp at Khoee, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton
Copy of Dispatch No. 55 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, at the Royal Camp at Khoee, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton
Date:
1827/1827
Description:
Abstract: Copy of dispatch No. 55 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, at the Royal Camp at Khoee [Khoy], to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton, of 19 July 1827. The letter concerns military operations in the ongoing war between Russia and Persia in the Caucasus [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828]. The letter gives details of the evacuation of Russian troops from the Province of Erivan [Yerevan] due to disease and lack of supplies, and the Russian siege of the fortress of Abbas-Abad ['Abbasabad], including a failed attempt by the besieging army to scale the fortress walls. Macdonald Kinneir also gives a detailed account of a battle between Persian forces led by Abbas Meerza [ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār, Crown Prince of Persia], Hussan Khan [Ḥasan Qulī Khān Qājār] and the Aussef ed Dowleh [Allāh Yār Khān Qājār Davallū, Āṣaf al-Dawlah, the Grand Vizier of the Shāh of Persia], and Russian troops from the besieging army, led by General Paskevitch [General Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky, Governor-General of Georgia] on the River Arras [Aras].This document was originally enclosed, numbered 1, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 22 July 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/29).Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)