Letter from Harford Jones to Henry Dundas
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Letter from Harford Jones to Henry Dundas
- Date:
- 1781/1805
- Description:
- Abstract: A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, newly appointed Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Henry Dundas, Secretary of State for War, sent from Constantinople [Istanbul] en route to Bagdad and dated 24 August 1798.The letter reports Jones’s arrival in Constantinople and dispatch of correspondence. It also covers subjects including:Reports from Egypt following the French invasion led by General Napoleon BonaparteThe reaction of the Sultan [Selim III, Sulṭān of the Ottoman Empire] and the population in Constantinople to the French invasion of EgyptJones’s speculations on the Porte’s [Government of the Ottoman Empire] likely response to the French invasion, arguing that the only resistance to Bonaparte is likely to come from the ‘Arabs’ [tribes] and Pashaws [Pāshās, governors] on the frontiers of the EmpireJones’s appeals to the Bacha of Bagdad [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad] to protect access to the Persian Gulph [Gulf] via the Euphrates from a possible French advanceReports from Smyrna [Izmir] that firmans [edicts] have been issued by the Porte ordering assistance to be given to British warships and declaring Bonaparte a ‘rebel’.Physical description: 1 item (6 folios)
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- French Campaign in Egypt and the Levant (1798-1801)
French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1800)
Governor of Baghdad - Geographic region:
- Ottoman Empire
Egypt - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100109378667.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100109378667.0x000001_en
IOR/L/PS/9/76/40
IOR/L/PS/9/76/40