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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [25v] (55/566)
The record is made up of 1 volume (279 folios). It was created in 1929. It was written in English. 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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OPERATIONS IN PERSIA
■ • cfj. „ , 7 „„ rc n f ctrife its representative, the eunuch Agha
Foundation fifteen years 01 Sirne ^ x t' \
of Qajar Khan, crushed the Zand lea,der and founded the
dynasty, q • dynasty, which was still in power m •
^ On the death of Nadir, Georgia, throwing off the Persian
yoke had annexed territory up to the river Aras and m 1793
had formed an offensive and defensive alliance with Russia.
Two years later, Agha Muhammad Khan retook the country
before Russia could come to its assistance. Though the
Empress Catherine recovered it in the next year just before
her death, her son Paul abandoned it again as soon as he came
to the throne Agha Muhammad Khan, a sagacious and
courageous ruler with a justifiable reputation for vindictive
cruelty and avarice, was assassinated in 1797, and was succeeded
by his nephew Fateh Ali. ^ . T
British Soon after the latter’s accession, the British m India, appre-
diplomacy, h ens i ve 0 f a n Afghan invasion and of French designs, started
negotiations to induce the Shah to continue hostilities against
the Amir of Kabul. Captain Malcolm, the first English diplo
matic envoy to Persia since the reign of Charles II, was success
ful in 1800 in concluding a political and commercial treaty.
The Shah agreed to make no peace with the Amir of Kabul
unless he renounced his designs on the British possessions in
India, while the British envoy agreed to furnish munitions
of war to the Shah in the case of Afghan or French attack;
French subjects were not to be allowed to settle in Persia,
and British and Indian merchants were to be granted certain
trade privileges.
In the same year the Emperor Paul of Russia, who with
Napoleon was discussing plans for the invasion of India, sent
Georgia military assistance against Persia. The feeble King
of Georgia, much against the wishes of his subjects, was
induced to renounce his crown in favour of the Czar ; and m
1801 Paul started the Don Cossacks on a march to India,
which his death, however, stopped at the Volga. For a short
time after this there was a cessation of Russian activity in
Trans-Caucasia ; but in 1804 they sent a force against Erivan,
France and and Napoleon, on the eve of declaring war with Russia, proposed
Persia, 1807 . a Franco-Persian alliance against her. Fateh Ali, who had
rejected French overtures two years previously owing to his
agreement with the British and who had by this time applied
to both Calcutta and London for assistance against Russia,
temporised. But the East India Company, no longer afraid
of Afghanistan or France, was indifferent, and the British
Government procrastinated. On the other hand, Russia
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A confidential publication compiled, by arrangement with the Government of India, under the direction of the Historical Section of The Committee of Imperial Defence, by Brigadier-General FJ Moberly. The volume is part of the Official History of the Great War series produced by the British Government.
The volume begins with a preface by Moberly and is then divided into 11 (I-XI) chapters, plus appendices, as follows:
- Chapter I: Introductory
- Chapter II: August 1914 to June 1915, Enemy efforts to bring Persia into the War
- Chapter III: July to November 1915, Enemy action and Persian weakness necessitate Allied intervention
- Chapter IV: December 1915 to May 1916, Successful results of Allied operations
- Chapter V: May to December 1916, Turkish invasion of Western Persia and British measures in South and East Persia
- Chapter VI: December 1916 to August 1917, Effects of British success in Mesopotamia
- Chapter VII: September 1917 to April 1918, The failure of Persia to maintain her neutrality necessitates further British intervention
- Chapter VIII: May to July 1918, The effect in Persia of the German successes in France; and the anti-British outbreak in Fars
- Chapter IX: July to September 1918, The tide turns in favour of the Allies
- Chapter X: October to 11th November 1918, The effect of our victories
- Chapter XI: Conclusion
The volume contains fourteen maps, some of which are in a pocket in the inside back cover, as follows:
- 1. Operations at Bushire 1915 (folio 275)
- 2. Portion of Perso-Afghan frontier (folio 276)
- 3. Operations at Dilbar, 13th-15th August 1915 (folio 66)
- 4. Operations of General Dyer in Sarhad, April-August 1916 (folio 277)
- 5. Wanderings of German parties in Persia and Afghanistan (folio 278)
- 6. Affair of Dasht-i-Arjan, 25th September 1916 (folio 128)
- 7. Affair of Kafta, 5th July 1917 (folio 144)
- 8. Northern Fars (folio 177)
- 9. Action of Deh Shaikh, 25th May 1918 (folio 182)
- 10. Shiraz (folio 194)
- 11. Operations from Bushire, September 1918-January 1919 (folio 279)
- 12. Plan of East Persia L. of C. (folio 231)
- 13. Operations for relief of Firuzabad, October 1918 (folio 236)
- 14. Persia (folio 280)
The volume also includes a bibliography (folio 14).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (279 folios)
- Arrangement
At the front of the volume there is a contents page (ff 6-14), list of maps (f 14), and list of illustrations (f 14). At the back of the volume is a general index (ff 269-73). All refer to the volume's original pagination.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 281; 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.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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