!['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.' [‎175] (194/454)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023552830.0x000001/T 36897_0194.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'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.' [‎175] (194/454)")
'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.' [175] (194/454)
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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Tavlor, political secretary — a specimen of his first
labours will be found in Appendix A, which he copied
for Major Taylor. Should it not be in your Lordship's
power to confer such a commission, may I beg the
favour of your exerting your high influence to effect
this object through her Majesty's Minister-at-War, or
the Horse Guards?
J. OuTRAM.
P.S.—I herewith transmit also a translation from the
Tehran Gazette, marked C.
To Lord Elphinstone.
Bus hire, 25th February, 1857.
My dear Lord Elphinstone,
I beg your Lordship to do me the favour to for
ward the accompanying letter to the Governor-General,
after perusal, as I have no time to prepare a copy of its
voluminous enclosures. The latter, however, it might
be as well, should your Lordship kindly oblige me so
far, to have copied and forwarded to the Home autho
rities by the next mail, lest my packet, sent to the
President (through whom I forwarded, under a flying
seal, the despatch for Lord Clarendon) via Bagdad,
may miscarry; for it is not impossible communication
up the river may now be interrupted.
My letter to the Governor-General so fully describes
our present position, &c., that I will not trouble your
Lordship by entering on the subjects treated of in it,
and I shall confine myself, therefore, to a brief mention
of our principal wants, towards supplying which, I
earnestly solicit your Lordship's kind influence, in sup
port of the official applications I have transmitted
through the military authorities.
Our chief great want is coal; respecting which, I am
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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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- '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.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1:8, 1:418, 418a:418l, 419:420, iii-r:iii-v, back-i
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- Outram, Sir James
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