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Reports on Turkish Arabia [138r] (7/16)
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No. 36, dated, Baghdad, the 2nd 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.
Heveuting to my despatch, No. 32, dated 17th ultimo, I regret to report
that the revolt of the Shammar Arabs continues unchecked.
It is reported that they have plundered villages between Zakho and Sinjar,
lying a short distance north-west from Moosul, and that a party have crossed
I the Tigris and proceeded towards Shahr-i-Zoor (Kerkook).
It is also said that the Ottoman troops having met with the party of the
insurgents on the left bank of the Tigris, attacked them and killed 19 of their
number. The rest retreated to Tikreet.
■
Yesterday a report reached this that they had come to near Samarrah.
The El-Dufeer, a branch of the Montifik, having come north in search of
food for themselves and forage for their animals, were invited by Eerhan
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
,
the official Sheikh of the Shammar, from whom his brother, Abd-ool-Kureem,
has drawn away the greater portion of the tribe to join him and assist in culti
vating certain lands on the banks of the Tigris, which Midhut
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
has
assigned to him.
This, with the innate aversion of the Arabs to field labor, which they, con
sider derogatory, and, indeed, to work of any kind, they declined, and, feeling it
imprudent to accept an invitation they have received from Abd-ool-Kureem to
join him for plunder and rapine, they determined to return to the Montific
countrv, and came down to Tarnieh about seven hours north of Baghdad,
on the right bank of the Tigris.
Thence they sent in to Midhut
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
to beg to be allowed passage through
the country, but unhappily he refused this permission, and insisted on their
joining Perhan
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
.
Nassir
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, who is now at Baghdad, is said to have urged His Excellency
to reconsider this determination and to have warned him of the consequences
; n without effect.
The result was that the El-Dufeer turned back intending to join Abd-ool-
Kureem, and a portion of them plundered the Dajjeil about ten hours north of
this city, carrying off the crops.
It is now stated that the remainder with the Anezeh and Delaim have pro
mised to aid the Turkish troops against the insurgent Shammar.
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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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