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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)KWH/B/18/110-111
TitleCopies of reports sent from Cairo, [Egypt]
Extent3 items
Date1803-1813
Description/110: Extracts relative to the conquest by the British Troops in India over the confederated Mahratta chiefs, taken from Major Missett's letter to Sir A. Ball, dated at Cairo, 26 January 1804: refers to actions in the Second Anglo-Maratha War [1803-1805]
/111a: Copy dispatch from Colonel Missett in Cairo to Lord William Bentinck, reporting on disturbances in Cairo, 13 December 1813
/111b: Copy dispatch from Colonel Missett in Cairo to Lord William Bentinck, reporting the beheading of Latif Pasha and further events on Cairo, 17 December 1813 (this dispatch had enclosed the dispatch of 13 December)

[Major, later Lieutnenat Colonel, Ernest Missett (d. 1821), HM Consul in Egypt; Admiral Sir Alexander Ball (1757-1809), British minister plenipotentiary in Malta; Lieutenant-General Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (1774-1839), known as Lord William Bentinck, commander of British troops in Sicily, statesman; served as Governor-General of India 1828-1835]
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