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'File No E/11 Kuwait' [51r] (113/804)
The record is made up of 1 file (389 folios). It was created in 21 Apr 1920-9 Feb 1921. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Confidential.
Ro. 1BS-C
Political
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
,Bahrain. ^
Dated tne 5tn July,1920.
To
Bin Baud,
After Complliflente .
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your
Excellency'e lettere dented 6th Shawwal 15S8 regarding the WAR AX Y A
affair, the Hajj Queetlon and Your Excellency 1 ® request to send
Dr» Harrieon to Riyadh,
Ae regard© the firot matter, I ara glad to learn that
Your Excellency have written to Shaikh Sallir in a way which would
I
secure friendly settlement of the matter.
As regards your reouest that Dr» Harrison be sent to
Riyadh to attend the sick of your family, I am extremely corry to
.your
hear the news of the elckness of sotsc of/children .Rtx?«*K I beg
to inform'Your >?*oellenoy that Dr. Harrison has recently gone to
India and will not return for three months# I have, however,
forwarded the contents of Your Excellency's letter to Sir Arnold
Wilson, Baghdad, by telegram, and perhaps he will be in a positio:
to send a doctor to Riyadh.
In the meantime, I trust God Almighty will take care
of the sick persons and will rapidly brinp; taem back to health
and strength. When all is said and done, we are all in uod'e
Hands.
Usual Ending.
major, C.l.k.,
i .B«M v e Political A^ent, Bahrain.
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This file contains correspondence between British officials at Bahrain, Bushire, Baghdad, Kuwait, the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. and the Government of India, as well as with ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd) and Sālim al-Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ of Kuwait.
These correspondence concerns relations between Britain, Ibn Sa‘ūd and Kuwait. Issues covered in this file include Ibn Sa‘ūd's boycott of the port of Kuwait in favour of the ports on the Eastern coast of Arabia; raids on Kuwait by the Ikhwān Movement (folios 6-14); relations between Ibn Rashīd, Ibn Sa‘ūd and the Āl Ṣabāḥ family of Kuwait; and defining the boundaries of Kuwait via-à-vis the territories held by Ibn Sa‘ūd (folios 41-44, 109 and 124).
The latter part of the file (folio 126 onwards) concerns the Battle of al-Jahrā’ in October 1920, when the Ikhwan Movement, under the leadership of Fayṣal al-Dawīsh, laid siege to the Red Fort (Qaṣr al-Aḥmar) in the town of al-Jahrā’, Kuwait. There is correspondence concerning the extent to which Ibn Sa‘ūd had control over Fayṣal al-Dawīsh and the Ikhwan forces (folio 148); copies of Arabic letters (with translations) between Ibn Sa‘ūd and Fayṣal al-Dawīsh (folios 246-263); and correspondence detailing British intervention on the basis of Anglo-Kuwaiti Treaty of 1899, including the provision of military assistance by sea and air (folios 160-63 and 170-71).
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- 1 file (389 folios)
- Arrangement
This file is arranged approximately in chronological order.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: This file has an uncircled foliation number in the top right hand corner or the centre of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. each folio.
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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/R/15/2/39
- Title
- 'File No E/11 Kuwait'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 1ar:1fv, 2r:9v, 11r:17v, 18v:38v, 40v:45v, 50r:60v, 62v, 63v:98v, 99ar:99bv, 100r:115v, 116v:218v, 219ar:219bv, 220r:230v, 232r:243v, 247r:261v, 263v:265v, 266ar:266bv, 267r:272v, 273ar:273bv, 274r:279v, 280ar:280bv, 281r:283v, 284v:294v, 296r:297v, 298ar:298bv, 299r:304v, 308v, 309v:316v, 317v:320v, 321v:323v, 324v:332v, 333v:338v, 339v:344v, 346v, 347v, 351r:353v, 355v, 359r:361v, 362ar:362bv, 363r:376v, 377v:388v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence