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File 57/1905 ‘Arabia: - Situation in Yemen (1905-11). Arab revolt against Turks. Imam of Sanaa’s letter to the King. Fighting in Yemen 1911. Agreement between the Turks & the Imam’ [224v] (453/692)
The record is made up of 1 volume (342 folios). It was created in 1905-1912. It was written in English and French. 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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1905 for the suppression of the Imam’s revolt, and their total strength was 6,400 men
when they disembarked at Hodeida. About 800 drafts (mixed) ha\e airived in the
meantime to replete their thinned battalions, and now, two years latter, on the eve ot
their return they can only muster 2,400 men in the eight battalions !
These troops were generally utilized in all the 1 urkish engagements against the
Imam, and saw the hr. nt of the fighting during that prolonged and arduous campaign.
They suffered heavily in the expedition of the winter of 1905 against the stronghold
of Shahara, where "the total Turkish losses were estimated at between 8,000 and
10.000 men.
The transport “ Smyrna ” from Constantinople and Smyrna anchored in the
roadstead yesterday morning and landed 325 mules. She proceeded to Camaran this
morning, and on her return, after completion of twenty-four horns quarantine, will
discharge a quantity of fodder and stores for the Military Department, and disembark
fifty men of the Transport Corps.
* The Albanian battalions will most probably be transported in the above vessel in
the course of next week.
The local military authorities inform me that four battalions of regulars from the
Adana district and about 12,000 drafts from
Anatolia
Peninsula that forms most of modern-day Turkey.
are expected shortly for service
in this vilayet, where the strength of the Army Corps cannot exceed 20,000 or
25.000 men of all arms.
Ferik Yussuf
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, perhaps the most able and successful General in the Yemen
that has kept the Imam’s hordes at bay in the vicinity of Amran during the past
eighteen months, has now been recalled to head-quarters and stationed at Eauda,
which is about 3^ miles north of the capital.
This step, taken under issue of an Imperial Irade, was the result of a complaint
submitted to the Sultan by the Sheikh of Amran, Hizam-es-Sa‘ar, during the recent
visit of the Yemen Sheikhs to Constantinople. It was no secret that the above
General was in the habit of sacking towns he passed through, and encouraged looting
amongst the troops under his command.
I have, &c.
(Signed) G. A. RICHARDSON.
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The volume contains letters and other papers, mainly by British Consular officials, reporting on the political situation in Yemen between 1905 and 1911. Their correspondence contains numerous military reports about Turkish troop and transport movements, the progress of the conflict between Turkish and Arab forces, and the state of the country and inhabitants of Yemen Vilayet, particularly the capital Sana’a, the Red Sea port town of Hodeida, and Asir in Saudi Arabia. Their diplomatic reports discuss the following topics: the response to be made to the appeal by the Imam of Yemen (also referred to as the Imam of Sana’a, Sanaa or Sana) to the King Emperor (Edward VIII), asking him to intercede with the Sultan of Turkey about the oppression of Turkish officials in Yemen; the letter from Mohammed Johia Hamid-ed-Din, father of the Imam of Yemen to Mohamed Effendi-el-Hariri, Mufti of Hamoh, describing the Arab revolt in Yemen against Turkish rule; the Commission sent by the Grand Shereef of Mecca to the Imam of Yemen with the object of ending the military conflict in Yemen between Turkish troops and the Arab forces of the Imam of Yemen; the letters of friendship from the Imam of Yemen to the Sultan of Lahej (also referred to as the Abdali Sultan) and the interview between the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. for Aden with a representative of the Imam of Yemen sent to propose an alliance with the British Government; the special Turkish Commission sent to Yemen by the Sublime Porte, to negotiate a peace settlement with the Imam of Yemen and the Sheikhs of the Arab tribes; the ratification of the agreement between the Turkish Commander Izzet Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. and the Imam of Yemen.
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- 1 volume (342 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 57 (Yemen situation 1905-11) consists of one volume.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 344; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore been crossed out.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:11v, 16r:27v, 29r:39v, 41r:87r, 89v:97v, 99r:103v, 105r:134v, 137r:156v, 157v:162v, 163v:207v, 209r:229r, 230r:276r, 277r:278v, 279v:285r, 287v:318v, 321r:336v, 337v:343v, back-i
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