Extract of a Letter from Constantinople to Baghdad
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Extract of a Letter from Constantinople to Baghdad
- Date:
- 1798/1798
- Description:
- Abstract: A translated extract of a letter from Coja Reuben ibn Saleh [Khāwja Rūbīn bin Ṣāliḥ] to Coja Abdullah ibn Eussof [Khāwja ‘Abdullāh bin Yūsuf] in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Constantinople [Istanbul] and dated 20 November 1798.The letter forwards news from Cairo received in Constantinople. It reports that, following unrest after the imposition of a poll tax, General Napoleon Bonaparte was attacked by a man from Barbary [North Africa], that a large number of French occupation forces were killed by the inhabitants of Cairo while the rest have retreated from the city, and that the Kia [deputy] of Beikir Pashaw [Abū Bakr Pāshā or Ebubekir Paşa, Ottoman Governor of Egypt] has taken control of a fortress in Cairo.Physical description: 1 item (2 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:
- غير معروف
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100109378675.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100109378675.0x000001_en
IOR/L/PS/9/76/47
IOR/L/PS/9/76/47