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'Lieut.-General Sir James Outram's Persian campaign in 1857; comprising general orders and despatches relating to the military operations in Persia, from the landing at Bushire to the treaty of peace; also, selections from his correspondence as commander-in-chief and plenipotentiary during the war in Persia.' [‎6] (17/454)

The record is made up of 1 volume (419 pages). It was created in 1860. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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VI
INTRODUCTION.
Owing to the stormy weather preventing the arrival of the
cavalry reinforcements so urgently required. Sir James Outram
remained in forced inactivity at Bushire until the 20th March,
when he was enabled to carry out his long contemplated
expedition to Mohamrah. The flotilla reached that place on
the 28th, and found that the enemy's works had been enormously
strengthened since the last reconnaissance; defences of solid
earth twenty feet thick and eighteen high, with casemated
embrasures armed with heavy ordnance, after the Sebastopol
model, had been thrown up. In less than an hour, however, all
the enemy's guns were silenced by the fire of our 8-inch mor
tars from a raft under Commander Rennie, and the 68-pounder
guns from the broadside of the frigates. The troops were then
landed. After blowing up their magazines the Persians fled
in disorder, and their army of 13,000 men was dispersed, leaving
sixteen guns and one mortar in our hands. To prove how
utterly they were disorganized, it may suffice to mention that
Captain Malcolm Green pursued them with only forty-five
sabres, and yet they did not dare to make a stand.
Sir James Outram then despatched three small steamers, with
100 Europeans in each, to Ahwaz, a small town where the
Persians had halted. This small body was landed, and the
enemy again fled in the utmost confusion. The morning after
the Ahwaz expedition returned, news arrived of the peace
between Persia and England, and the campaign was virtually
at an end. At this time Sir James Outram was at the head
of an army of 14,000 men, with which he might have marched
through Persia. But however much the Indian papers might
have condemned the sudden cessation of warfare, it may now
be regarded as a special interposition of Providence; for it
enabled the Commander-in-Chief to send back the European
troops to India, where their presence was so soon to be required
in suppressing the Mutiny.
The remaining details of the expedition, including the recall
of the whole force long prior to the stipulations of the treaty
being carried out (for that was not conceded till the end of
September), are given in the letters of Sir James Outram,

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Lieut.-General Sir James Outram's Persian campaign in 1857; comprising general orders and despatches relating to the military operations in Persia, from the landing at Bushire to the treaty of peace; also, selections from his correspondence as commander-in-chief and plenipotentiary during the war in Persia.

Author: Sir James Outram.

Publication Details: London: printed for private circulation only by Smith, Elder and Co., 65 Cornhill.

Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-viii); with maps; octavo.

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Dimensions: 220mm x 135mm

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