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'Abstract of Correspondence and Memorandum respecting the Yemen' [68r] (17/24)
The record is made up of 1 file (12 folios). It was created in Jan 1873. 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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17
Hammer, tome vi,
1567.
Ibid., vi, p. 379.
1570.
1587.
Hammer, tome vii
Ibid., tome ix, pp.
1633.
Hammer, tome ix
Geogr., tome viii,
p- 366. In the year 1567 a great rebellion took place
against the Ottoman rule (then represented by
Hasan
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, Governor of Yemen), headed by
Moutahker, Imaum of the Se’ids, who seized on
Sennaa, Aden, Mocha, and the rest of the Yemen
with the exception of Sebid.
Sinan,
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
of Egypt, was dispatched by the
Porte to put down this rebellion, which he accom
plished in May 1570, when he made a Treaty with
Moutahker by which the Porte recovered her former
. dominion in the Yemen.
The Turkish rule continued in the Yemen till, in
■ the year 1587, during the reign of the Sultan
’ P- 204 - Murad III, Hasan, the then Governor of the
Yemen, caused new troubles to arise by treacherously
seizing, and sending to Constantinople, the Chiefs of
the Se’ids. The sect of the Seids at once declared
themselves independent, and tranquillity disappeared
98, 107, 202. in the Yemen. The Imaun of the Seids soon after
this took the title of “Commander of the Faithful,”
and attacked the Governor of the Yemen in Sennaa.
At length, in the year 1633, and in the reign of
Murad IV, a battle took place at Djanan between the
Ottoman army under Kanssonbeg, who had been
nominated Governor by the Porte, and the Imaum
of the Seids. The battle ended unfavourably for the
Turks; and, to conclude in the words of Hammer,
¥
“ desormais 1’Yemen fut livie sans defense h la
, p. 206. domination des Seides.”
It would appear from this sketch that the Turkish
conquest of the Yemen, such as it was, commenced
in 1517 ; that the Turkish rule was frequently
disturbed by revolutions amongst the native inhabi
tants of the conquered country, and amongst others
by the Seids, whose hereditary chiefs are now the
Imaums of Sennaa; and that that rule ended in the
year 1633, since which time the Yemen has been
under the rule of the Imaum of Sennaa, the Chief of
p. 296. the Seids, whose Government Make Brun thus
describes :—“ Le trone de PYemen est hereditaire.
LTman, ou Emoi, y est independent, et ne reconnait
aucun superieur ni spirituel ni temporel.”
It is necessary then to inquire whether the cam
paign of Ibrahim
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, the younger, in the Yemen,
during the years 1833-40, can be regarded as
establishing for the Porte a further title to the
sovereignty over the Yemen.
[121] F
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The file contains an account given on the control and occupation of Yemen from June 1832 onwards. It covers the rebellion of Toorche Bilmer; the acquisition of Mocha by Mehemet Ali, Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. of Egypt; the intentions of Mehemet Ali towards Aden, Muscat, and Baghdad; relations with the British Government and the Government of India; the proposed transfer of Aden to the British Government; communications between Colonel Patrick Campbell, British Consul General to Egypt with Boghos Bey, Egyptian Foreign Minister, and Mehemet Ali regarding troops in Yemen; and the actions of Captain Haines of the Indian navy in arranging the transfer of Aden with the Sultan of Aden.
The memorandum discusses the right of sovereignty claimed by the Porte over Yemen, and the consequences this has for: the claim of duty under the Commercial Treaty of 1838; the question of reparations for 'insults and injuries' against British interests by Sheriff Mocha; and the right by which the British Government holds Aden.
It is broken down into three sections:
1. Turkish Claim of Sovereignty in Yemen;
2. Sovereignty over Mocha;
3. Sovereignty over Aden.
Each section outlines the history of the area in terms of changes in sovereignty, and gives the British view on Turkish sovereignty.
Includes three short letter quotes in French.
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- 1 file (12 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at f 60, and terminates at f 71, as it is part of a larger physical volume; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 60-71; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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