Aden Affairs: The Recent Attempted Attack on Aden

Title:

Aden Affairs: The Recent Attempted Attack on Aden

Date:

1846/1846

Description:

Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 114 of 1846, dated 1 October 1846. The enclosures are dated 8 September-26 September 1846.The item relates to the recent attempted attack on Aden on 1 September 1846 by ‘a body of Arabs under the Fanatic Syud Ismael [Sayyid Ismā‘īl, also spelled Sayud in this item]’ (f 495).The principal correspondents are: Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent, Aden; and the Secretary to the Government, Bombay.The papers notably include the following:Reports by Haines concerning: the planned attack and the cause of the quarrel between Syud Ismael and his followers which resulted in the dispersal of the force; the subsequent opening up of communications and trade with the interior; intelligence regarding Syud Ismael’s ensuing communications with various ‘chiefs’; Haines’s suggestion for a punitive blockade of the ports of those ‘chiefs’ in order to effect the suppression of the date trade and supply of fish; and Haines’s expectation that elements of the local population will be ‘again troublesome’ after the ‘Eyed’ [Eid al-Fitr] (ff 498-501)A report by the Senior Naval Officer at Aden, forwarded to the Governor and President in Council, Bombay, by Captain Sir Richard Oliver, Superintendent of the Indian Navy, detailing the actions of the vessels of war at Aden that repelled the two attacks in August on the field works there (ff 510-512)Reports forwarded to the Military Department, Bombay, by the Adjutant-General of the Army, Poona [Pune], praising the conduct of the troops composing the Aden garrison during the recent attacks on Aden, including copies of correspondence between Haines and Lieutenant-Colonel H R Milner, Commanding the troops at Aden, and reports by Captain C Taylor, 47th Regiment of Native Infantry, Commanding the Turkish Wall (ff 515-523).The last two enclosures, the Bombay Timesoverland summary and the Bombay Overland Courier, are noted as ‘Missing 29.10.1906’.Physical description: 1 item (32 folios)

Language:

English

Type:

Archival item

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Defence
Political intelligence
Religious zealotry

Geographic region:

Aden

Rights:

رخصة حكومة مفتوحة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100154581908.0x000014_ar
81055/vdc_100154581908.0x000014_en
IOR/L/PS/5/445, ff 494-525
IOR/L/PS/5/445, ff 494-525

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