Letters from Harford Jones to Jonathan Duncan

Title:

Letters from Harford Jones to Jonathan Duncan

Date:

1798/1798

Description:

Abstract: Two letters from Harford Jones, Resident in Baghdad, to Jonathan Duncan, President and Governor in Council of Bombay [Mumbai], sent from Bagdad [Baghdad] and dated 29 November 1798 and 2 December 1798.Jones forwards two letters with information from French-occupied Egypt:1. A translation of a letter from Taleb Aga [Āghā], a resident of Acca [Acre], to Saleh Kiumchee [?], a Damascus merchant. The letter forwards reports regarding the French campaign in Egypt, including:Reports that English ships off Alexandria have intercepted French dispatches to the Directory, describing illness among the French troops in Egypt and attacks by ‘Arabs’ [tribes] and asking for supportReports that the inhabitants of Cairo have risen up against the French occupation forces, killed a large number including General Napoleon Bonaparte, and driven them out of the city where the Kia [deputy] of Beikir Pashaw [Abū Bakr Pāshā or Ebubekir Paşa, Ottoman Governor of Egypt] has now taken control of the castle [Citadel].The arrival of Turkish reinforcements in Acca from Constantinople [Istanbul].2. A translation of a letter from the Diwan Effendisi (Secretary) of the Pashaw [Sulaymān Pāshā Āl Kabīr, Governor of Baghdad] to Jones, received 2 December 1798. The letter forwards reports received from Egypt via Damascus that, following the imposition of a poll tax, the inhabitants of Cairo have risen up against the French occupation forces, killed a large number including General Bonaparte, and driven them out of the city, where the Kia of Bekir Pashaw has taken control.Physical description: 1 item (4 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)
Napoleon I

Geographic region:

Egypt

Rights:

المُلكية العامة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100109378674.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100109378674.0x000001_en
IOR/L/PS/9/76/46
IOR/L/PS/9/76/46

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