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Reports on Turkish Arabia [137r] (5/16)
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No. 35 ; dated ; Baghdad^ the 1st August 1871.
From— Colonel C. Herbert, Consul General at Baghdad.
. To—His Excellency the Right Hon'ble Sir Henry Elliot, g. c. b., Her Britannic
Majesty’s Ambassador at Constantinople.
In continuation of my letter, No. 33, dated 19th ultimo, I have the honor
to report that the rumour of the Turkish troops having reached El-Hasa and
occupied that place has been confirmed.
As I anticipated, the march of the troops was not opposed.
The forts were all given up without resistance of any kind, and the small
body of troops have been permitted to establish themselves in that locality.
It is stated that the force is much reduced in numbers by deaths from
sickness and want of food, and is much dispirited.
Sheikh Faleh, son of Nasir
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, Sheikh of the Montifik, with the Con
tingent of Arab horsemen which had accompanied the expedition to El-Hasa,
reached Koweit on his return on the 26th instant.
It is reported that, from the time of joining the expedition, he had only
received seven days’ commissariat supplies for his men and animals, and on his
applying for help to the General in command, Nafiz
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, the latter stated
his inability to aid bim, and recommended his return with his Contingent; that
they marched accordingly but without supplies of any kind, and that they lost
very many horses on the way to Koweit from want of food and water.
Munsoor Beg, ex-Sheikh of the Montifik, Suliman Zaheir, ex-Sheikh of
Zobair, and Syed Mahomed Saeed, brother of Syed Abd-ool-rehman, Nakeeb of
Bussorah, are said to be on their way back, and therefore Nafiz
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
with his
reduced body of troops is left without support at El-Hasa.
Saood is still reported to be in possession of Biad and Nejd proper. The
whereabouts of Abdullah is not distinctly known, but he is said to be not far
from the capital, probably at Kharij, to the south, audit is said that the inha
bitants of the country are endeavouring to bring about a reconciliation between
the brothers with the view to their combining to get rid of the Ottoman troops.
It is to be apprehended that the position of these last is very precarious.
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Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 10 October 1871.
The papers consist of intelligence reports from Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Herbert, Consul General at Baghdad, and Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. . The reports include: the Turkish occupation of El-Hasa [Al Hasa]; the revolt of the Shammar Arabs; and a memorandum of deaths from cholera at Baghdad and Kerbella [Karbala].
The Enclosures are dated 1-3 August 1871.
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