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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.' [‎257] (276/454)

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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those debilitating and unhealthy climates, my purpose
was to garrison Bushire with a force which I deemed
adequate to the object contemplated by the treaty after
its ratification, and to commit the protection and reten
tion of Mohumra exclusively to the navv.
Such I beg to observe was the general outline of my
views and intentions, but the tenor of your Lordship's
despatch just received, and its accompaniments as above
quoted, preclude me from carrying them into effect. I
feel that without the expression of some discretionary
power being committed to me in this respect, I should
not be justified in removing any part of this force from the
positions which we now occupy. Those positions are
unfortunately, during the summer months, of the worst
possible description for the health of the men, the
climate of Bushire being inordinately hot, and Mohumra
equally and notoriously deadly.
Now, although your Lordship's despatch under reply
does not actually forbid the suspension of hostilities
" until the ratifications are exchanged," yet, inasmuch as
that allowed interval is accompanied with instructions
directing me, in the meanwhile, to settle the terms of an
armistice with the nearest Persian commander, I should
deem it contrary to the intentions of Her Majesty's Go
vernment were I, even for so imperative a motive as the
welfare of the troops under my command, to seize by
force of arms what is nevertheless an object of vital
importance, viz., the possession of distant healthy
localities in which to pass the summer months.
I might, indeed, under the instructions received from
the Secret Committee Pre-1784, the Committee responsible for protecting East India Company shipping. Post-1784, its main role was to transmit communications between the Board of Control and the Company's Indian governments on matters requiring secrecy. contemporaneously with your
Lordship's despatch, advance so far into the interior of
the country as would be necessary to secure such a posi
tion, but not to repeat the difficulties in which (under
the altered state of our relations with Persia) such a
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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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