PERSIA FACTORY RECORDS: LETTERS FROM BASRA, 1753-1773, PT 3

Title:

PERSIA FACTORY RECORDS: LETTERS FROM BASRA, 1753-1773, PT 3

Date:

1766/1773

Description:

Abstract: This item contains correspondence sent to and received from the East India Company Factory at Bussora [Basra] from 2 September 1765 to 17 August 1773. It contains correspondence relating to the following:The destruction of nine Turkish galleys sent against them by the Chaub [Banū Ka‘b], including that of the Captain Bashaw [Kapūdān Pāshā], with stores of gunpowder and ammunition, and a Turkish counterattack, that drove the Chaub into their fort, ‘after making great slaughter’The attempt by Captain John Brewer to take the Chaub’s redoubt and a sally by the latter’s cavalry, leading to the death of Brewer and loss of all his ‘Field Peices and Ammunition’An express message from Carim Caun [Karīm Khān Zand] demanding the Anglo-Turkish force raise the siege, since ‘the Chaub [Shaikh Salmān bin Sulṭān al-Ka‘bī] & his People were Persian Subjects’, otherwise he would dispatch an ‘innumerable Army’ and make war on the Turks and the EnglishThe capture and execution of Meer Mahanna [Mīr Muḥannā] by the Mussaleem [Mutasallim of Basra] on the orders of the Pasha, ostensibly to avoid harbouring him or having to surrender him to Carim CaunThe overthrow of Shaik Ghanum [Shaikh Ghānim bin Salmān al-Ka‘bī] by his brother Daoud [Dawūd bin Salmān al-Ka‘bī] as Shaikh of the Chaub, on account of the former’s adherence to his father’s [Shaikh Salmān] policy of ‘professing subiection to both Turks and Persians, and by that means paying obedience to neither’The arrival of William Eaton at Bussora as factor of David Hays of the Levant Company in Aleppo, the third such factor to be dispatched by Hays as observed by the East India CompanyThe ‘great preparations’ made by Carim Caun for going to war, including his taking charge of an additional army of 30,000 horsemen and 20,000 footmen, and which might be intended to deter the Russians, Turks, or Achmed Shaw the Offghoon [Aḥmad Shāh Durrānī the Afghān]The capture of the ship The Tygerby the gallivats of Bunderick [Bandar-i Rig], which were said to be cruising off Bussora Harbour to intercept any commercial vessels coming from Bengal.Physical description: 1 item (191 folios)

Language:

English

Type:

Archival item

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Executions
Kings and rulers--Deposition

Rights:

المُلكية العامة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100148761684.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100148761684.0x000001_en
IOR/G/29/20/3
IOR/G/29/20/3

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