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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1070] (1225/1782)
The record is made up of 2 volumes (1624 pages). It was created in 1915. It was written in English. 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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1070
Occupation of
Yanbo' by
the Egypt-
tians and
their repulse
from Madi-
nah, ] 811-12-
unaltered. Suez fell into Muhammad ^Ali's hands in 1 805 and Qusair
in 1808, and, had he declared those ports closed to trade with Hijaz, it
is possible that the inhabitants of that province would have been obliged,
through failure of the food supplies for which they are dependent on
Egypt, themselves to undertake the expulsion of the AYahhabis; but ;
either fum respect for the Holy Cities and their inhabitants, or from
unwillingi «s to injure the export trade of Egypt, Muhammad 'Ali
shrunk from this obvious expedient and deferred the recovery of Hijaz
until he was in a position to attempt it by force of arms. The
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
^s
preparations were not commenced in earnest until the end of 1S09 ; nor was
he entirely at leisure from internal preoccupations until he had disposed of
the Mamluk rebellion, which continued into 1811. Once begun, however,
his measures were thorough and systematic; and, before commencing the
campaign he was careful to provide a sufficient fleet of transports
at Suez and to establish and garrison a chain of posts reaching
down the eastern shore of the Red Sea as far as Wajj. As soon as the
Sharif Ghalib of Makkah became aware of Muhammad 'Ali's intentions
he opened a correspondence with the
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
Command of the expedition was entrusted to Tusun Bey, son of
Muhammad J Ali, a youth who was only eighteen years of age but had
distinguished himself by his courage in the Mamluk wars. The infantry,
consisting of 1,500 to 2,000 Albanians, arrived by sea near Yanbo' in
October 1811; and that place, which was held by a nominally Wahhabi
garrison of 100 men on the part of the Sharif Grhalib, surrendered after
a feeble resistance of two days to the Egyptian commanders. A fortnight
later Tusun Bey himself arrived by land with the cavalry, who numbered
about 800 and consisted partly of Turkish horsemen and partly of
mounted Bedouins : he had experienced no opposition by the way. In
Januarv iS12, the Sharif Ghalib as yet declining on various pretexts to
assist either side, the Egyptians advanced from Yanbo' through the hills
towards Madinah; but in a gorge near the village of Jadaid they were
taken unawares by a huge force of Wahhabis, just arrived from Najd,
of whose presence they were altogether ignorant and by whom the
mountains on either side were occupied in great strength. The result
was a coimplete disaster for the invading force, who lost four gun«, about
1,200 men, 200 horses, the whole of their baggage, and nearly all their
camel transport; but pursuit by the Wahhabis was checked by the courage
o f Tusun Bey himself and of his Agha * Thom as Keith, alias Ibrahim,
Thomas Ivoith was a, naifivo of Edinburtrli * hp w\.a rvrir*ir^«n • 1.1
72nd Highlanders, bnt, having W fake /prisoLr inT™
madan and r„ 8 e, after extraordinary adventured to ba the ehg^f wTMamS"'
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Theses two volumes make up Volume I, Part IA and Part IB (Historical) (pages i-778 and 779-1624) of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , ’Omān and Central Arabia (Government of India: 1915), compiled by John Gordon Lorimer and completed for press by Captain L Birdwood.
Part 1A contains an 'Introduction' (pages i-iii) written by Birdwood in Simla, dated 10 October 1914. There is also a 'Table of Chapters, Annexures, Appendices and Genealogical Tables' (page v-viii) and 'Detailed Table of Contents' (pages ix-cxxx), both of which cover all volumes and parts of the Gazetteer .
Parts IA and IB consist of nine chapters:
- 'Chapter I. General History of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Region' (Part IA, pages 1-396);
- 'Chapter II. History of the ’Omān Sultanate' (Part IA, pages 397-629);
- 'Chapter III. History of Trucial ’Omān' (Part IA, page 630-Part IB, page 786);
- 'Chapter IV. History of Qatar' (Part IB, pages 787-835);
- 'Chapter V. History of Bahrain' (Part IB, pages 836-946);
- 'Chapter VI. History of Hasa' (Part IB, pages 947-999);
- 'Chapter VII. History of Kuwait' (Part 1B, pages 1000-1050);
- 'Chapter VIII. History of Najd or Central Arabia' (Part 1B, pages 1051-1178);
- 'Chapter IX. History of Turkish ’Iraq' (Part 1B, pages 1179-1624).
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- 2 volumes (1624 pages)
- Arrangement
Volume I, Part I has been divided into two bound volumes (1A and 1B) for ease of binding. Part 1A contains an 'Introduction', 'Table of Chapters, Annexures, Appendices and Genealogical Trees' and 'Detailed Table of Contents'. The content is arranged into nine chapters, with accompanying annexures, that relate to specific geographic regions in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The chapters are sub-divided into numbered periods according, for example, to the reign of a ruler or regime of a Viceroy, or are arbitrarily based on outstanding land-marks in the history of the region. Each period has been sub-divided into subject headings, each of which has been lettered. The annexures focus on a specific place or historical event. Further subject headings also appear in the right and left margins of the page. Footnotes appear occasionally at the bottom of the page to provide further details and references.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. The sequence runs through parts IA and IB as follows:
- Volume I, Part IA: The sequence begins on the first folio with text, on number 1, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 456. Total number of folios: 456. Total number of folios including covers and flysheets: 460.
- Volume I, Part IB: The sequence begins on the first folio with text, on number 457, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 878. It should be noted that folio 488 is followed by folio 488A. Total number of folios: 423. Total number of folios including covers and flysheets: 427.
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- 'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iii-v, 1:130, 1:778, iv-r:iv-v, back-i, front-a, back-a, spine-a, edge-a, head-a, tail-a, front-a-i, v-r:v-v, 779:1098, 1131:1146, 1099:1130, 1147:1484, 1489:1496, 1485:1488, 1497:1624, vi-r:vi-v, back-a-i
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