Assyrians, Kurds, and Ottomans: Intercommunal Relations on the Periphery of the Ottoman Empire
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Chapter 11:  Great Britain, the Ottomans, and the Assyrian Tragedy
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Endnotes

1. Vine, The Nestorian Churches, 176–177; J. T. Parfit, Mesopotamia: The Key to the Future (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1917), 31. G. E. Hubbard, From the Gulf to Arrarat: An Expedition Through Mesopotamia and Kurdistan (London: W. Blackwood, 1916), 145–146, stated that after 1802 British interests were consolidated and the post of Political Resident in Turkish Arabia was created; H. M. Stationery Office, Geographical Handbook, 1:294. Col. Taylor reported that Ali Ridha Pasha was very pleased with the improved relations with Great Britain and recommended to the Porte giving concessions for navigation in Tigris and Euphrates. F.O. 195/113, Baghdad, February 15, 1833, Taylor to the Chief Secretary of the Government of Bombay. See also Longrigg, Four Centuries, 275–27; Graves, Britain and Turkey, 11; Cooke, Baghdad Madinat al Salam, 2:120–122.
2. Badger, The Nestorians, 1:xi–xii; Laurie, Dr. Grant, 127.
3. Ainsworth, Travels, 2:220–221, 245–253; Badger, The Nestorians, 1:ix.
4. Badger, The Nestorians, 1:xiv. American Sunday-School Union, The Nestorians, 8–9.
5. F.O. 78/2698: Constantinople, January 27, 1842, Canning to Aberdeen; also Tabreez, August 21, 1843, Abbott to Colonel Williams.
6. F.O. 78/2698, London, March 24, 1842, memorandum of instruction to Rev. G. P. Badger on his departure to Kurdistan (included in Canning no 34; includes February 1844).
7. F.O. 195/228, Mosul August 17, 1843, Rassam to Canning.
8. F.O. 19/204, Mosul August 17, 1843, Rassam to Taylor.
9. F.O. 19/204, Mosul August 3, 1843, Rassam to Colonel Taylor.
10. Ross reported that the age for bearing arms in Tiyari was fifteen and sometimes lower. Letters From the East, 61.
11. F.O. 78/2698, Constantinople, June 17, 1843, Canning to Aberdeen.
12. Laurie, Dr. Grant, 356–357.
13. F.O. 195/228, Mosul, August 13, 1843, Rassam to Canning.
14. F.O. 78/2698, London, August 26, 1843, Aberdeen to Canning.
15. F.O. 78/2698, Constantinople, March 23, 1844, Canning to Aberdeen.
16. F.O. 78/2698, Constantinople, December 1, 1843, Canning to Aberdeen.
17. F.O. 78/2698, Constantinople, December 21, 1843, Canning to Stevens.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.