Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Anglo-Persian War

Index Anglo-Persian War

The Anglo–Persian War lasted between November 1, 1856 and April 4, 1857, and was fought between Great Britain and Persia (which was at the time ruled by the Qajar dynasty). [1]

74 relations: Abbas Mirza, Afghanistan, Ahvaz, Arthur Thomas Moore, Baloch Regiment, Basra, Battle honour, Battle of Khushab, Bombay Army, Bombay Engineer Group, Borazjan, British Indian Army, Buffer state, Bushehr, Carronade, Central Asia, Constantinople, Dost Mohammad Khan (Emir of Afghanistan), East India Company, Emir, Emirate of Afghanistan, Farrokh Khan, First Anglo-Afghan War, Government of the United Kingdom, Governor-general, Henry Havelock, Herat, India, Indian Rebellion of 1857, Iran, Iranian Gendarmerie, John Augustus Wood, John Jacob (East India Company officer), John Malcolmson, Kakinada, Karun, Khanlar Mirza, Kharg Island, Khorramshahr, Khorramshahr County, Khvosh Ab, Bushehr, Madras Engineer Group, Madras Presidency, Mesopotamia, Muscat, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Ottoman Empire, Paris, Persian Gulf, Poona Horse, ..., Presidencies and provinces of British India, Qajar dynasty, Rajputana Rifles, Royal Navy, Sepoy, Shah, Shatt al-Arab, Shiraz, Siege of Lucknow, Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, Tehran, The Great Game, Treaty of Paris (1857), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Victoria Cross, 104th Wellesley's Rifles, 120th Rajputana Infantry, 123rd Outram's Rifles, 126th Baluchistan Infantry, 129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis, 14th Prince of Wales's Own Scinde Horse, 64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot, 78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot. Expand index (24 more) »

Abbas Mirza

Abbas Mirza (عباس میرزا) (August 20, 1789October 25, 1833), was a Qajar crown prince of Persia.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Abbas Mirza · See more »

Afghanistan

Afghanistan (Pashto/Dari:, Pashto: Afġānistān, Dari: Afġānestān), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located within South Asia and Central Asia.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Afghanistan · See more »

Ahvaz

Ahvaz (or Ahwaz; translit) is a city in the southwest of Iran and the capital of Khuzestan province.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Ahvaz · See more »

Arthur Thomas Moore

Major General Arthur Thomas Moore, (20 September 1830 – 25 April 1913) was a Bombay Army officer and an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Arthur Thomas Moore · See more »

Baloch Regiment

The Baloch Regiment is an infantry regiment of the Pakistan Army.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Baloch Regiment · See more »

Basra

Basra (البصرة al-Baṣrah), is an Iraqi city located on the Shatt al-Arab between Kuwait and Iran.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Basra · See more »

Battle honour

A battle honour is an award of a right by a government or sovereign to a military unit to emblazon the name of a battle or operation on its flags ("colours"), uniforms or other accessories where ornamentation is possible.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Battle honour · See more »

Battle of Khushab

The Battle of Khushab (Battle of Khoosh-Ab) took place on 7 February 1857 and was the largest single engagement of the Anglo-Persian War.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Battle of Khushab · See more »

Bombay Army

The Bombay Army was the army of the Bombay Presidency, one of the three presidencies of British India within the British Empire.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Bombay Army · See more »

Bombay Engineer Group

The Bombay Engineer Group, or the Bombay Sappers as they are informally known, are a regiment of the Corps of Engineers of the Indian Army.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Bombay Engineer Group · See more »

Borazjan

Borazjan (برازجان; also Romanized as Borāzjān; also known as Borazdjan and Borāzjūn) is a city in and the capital of Dashtestan County, Bushehr Province, Iran.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Borazjan · See more »

British Indian Army

The Indian Army (IA), often known since 1947 (but rarely during its existence) as the British Indian Army to distinguish it from the current Indian Army, was the principal military of the British Indian Empire before its decommissioning in 1947.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and British Indian Army · See more »

Buffer state

A buffer state is a country lying between two rival or potentially hostile greater powers.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Buffer state · See more »

Bushehr

Bushehr, or Bushire (بوشهر; also Romanised as Būshehr, Bouchehr, Buschir and Busehr; also Bandar Bushehr (بندر بوشهر), also Romanised as Bandar Būshehr and Bandar-e Būshehr; previously known as Beh Ardasher, Antiochia in Persis (Greek: Αντιόχεια της Περσίδος) and Bukht Ardashir), is the capital city of Bushehr Province, Iran.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Bushehr · See more »

Carronade

A carronade is a short, smoothbore, cast iron cannon which was used by the Royal Navy and first produced by the Carron Company, an ironworks in Falkirk, Scotland, UK.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Carronade · See more »

Central Asia

Central Asia stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Central Asia · See more »

Constantinople

Constantinople (Κωνσταντινούπολις Konstantinoúpolis; Constantinopolis) was the capital city of the Roman/Byzantine Empire (330–1204 and 1261–1453), and also of the brief Latin (1204–1261), and the later Ottoman (1453–1923) empires.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Constantinople · See more »

Dost Mohammad Khan (Emir of Afghanistan)

Dost Mohammad Khan (دوست محمد خان, December 23, 1793June 9, 1863) was the founder of the Barakzai dynasty and one of the prominent rulers of Afghanistan during the First Anglo-Afghan War.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Dost Mohammad Khan (Emir of Afghanistan) · See more »

East India Company

The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company and informally as John Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company, formed to trade with the East Indies (in present-day terms, Maritime Southeast Asia), but ended up trading mainly with Qing China and seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and East India Company · See more »

Emir

An emir (أمير), sometimes transliterated amir, amier, or ameer, is an aristocratic or noble and military title of high office used in a variety of places in the Arab countries, West African, and Afghanistan.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Emir · See more »

Emirate of Afghanistan

The Emirate of Afghanistan (د افغانستان امارت) was an emirate between Central Asia and South Asia, which is today's Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Emirate of Afghanistan · See more »

Farrokh Khan

Farrokh Khan (also spelled Ferouk Khan, Feruk Khan and Ferukh Khan), also known by his title of Amin od-dowleh, was a high-ranking Persian official, and vice premier to the court of shah Fath-Ali Shah Qajar.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Farrokh Khan · See more »

First Anglo-Afghan War

The First Anglo-Afghan War (also known as Disaster in Afghanistan) was fought between British imperial India and the Emirate of Afghanistan from 1839 to 1842.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and First Anglo-Afghan War · See more »

Government of the United Kingdom

The Government of the United Kingdom, formally referred to as Her Majesty's Government, is the central government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Government of the United Kingdom · See more »

Governor-general

Governor-general (plural governors-general) or governor general (plural governors general), in modern usage, is the title of an office-holder appointed to represent the monarch of a sovereign state in the governing of an independent realm.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Governor-general · See more »

Henry Havelock

Major General Sir Henry Havelock KCB (5 April 1795 – 24 November 1857) was a British general who is particularly associated with India and his recapture of Cawnpore from rebels during the Indian Mutiny of 1857.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Henry Havelock · See more »

Herat

Herat (هرات,Harât,Herât; هرات; Ἀλεξάνδρεια ἡ ἐν Ἀρίοις, Alexándreia hē en Aríois; Alexandria Ariorum) is the third-largest city of Afghanistan.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Herat · See more »

India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and India · See more »

Indian Rebellion of 1857

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India between 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Indian Rebellion of 1857 · See more »

Iran

Iran (ایران), also known as Persia, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (جمهوری اسلامی ایران), is a sovereign state in Western Asia. With over 81 million inhabitants, Iran is the world's 18th-most-populous country. Comprising a land area of, it is the second-largest country in the Middle East and the 17th-largest in the world. Iran is bordered to the northwest by Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan, to the north by the Caspian Sea, to the northeast by Turkmenistan, to the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, and to the west by Turkey and Iraq. The country's central location in Eurasia and Western Asia, and its proximity to the Strait of Hormuz, give it geostrategic importance. Tehran is the country's capital and largest city, as well as its leading economic and cultural center. Iran is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Elamite kingdoms in the fourth millennium BCE. It was first unified by the Iranian Medes in the seventh century BCE, reaching its greatest territorial size in the sixth century BCE, when Cyrus the Great founded the Achaemenid Empire, which stretched from Eastern Europe to the Indus Valley, becoming one of the largest empires in history. The Iranian realm fell to Alexander the Great in the fourth century BCE and was divided into several Hellenistic states. An Iranian rebellion culminated in the establishment of the Parthian Empire, which was succeeded in the third century CE by the Sasanian Empire, a leading world power for the next four centuries. Arab Muslims conquered the empire in the seventh century CE, displacing the indigenous faiths of Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism with Islam. Iran made major contributions to the Islamic Golden Age that followed, producing many influential figures in art and science. After two centuries, a period of various native Muslim dynasties began, which were later conquered by the Turks and the Mongols. The rise of the Safavids in the 15th century led to the reestablishment of a unified Iranian state and national identity, with the country's conversion to Shia Islam marking a turning point in Iranian and Muslim history. Under Nader Shah, Iran was one of the most powerful states in the 18th century, though by the 19th century, a series of conflicts with the Russian Empire led to significant territorial losses. Popular unrest led to the establishment of a constitutional monarchy and the country's first legislature. A 1953 coup instigated by the United Kingdom and the United States resulted in greater autocracy and growing anti-Western resentment. Subsequent unrest against foreign influence and political repression led to the 1979 Revolution and the establishment of an Islamic republic, a political system that includes elements of a parliamentary democracy vetted and supervised by a theocracy governed by an autocratic "Supreme Leader". During the 1980s, the country was engaged in a war with Iraq, which lasted for almost nine years and resulted in a high number of casualties and economic losses for both sides. According to international reports, Iran's human rights record is exceptionally poor. The regime in Iran is undemocratic, and has frequently persecuted and arrested critics of the government and its Supreme Leader. Women's rights in Iran are described as seriously inadequate, and children's rights have been severely violated, with more child offenders being executed in Iran than in any other country in the world. Since the 2000s, Iran's controversial nuclear program has raised concerns, which is part of the basis of the international sanctions against the country. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, an agreement reached between Iran and the P5+1, was created on 14 July 2015, aimed to loosen the nuclear sanctions in exchange for Iran's restriction in producing enriched uranium. Iran is a founding member of the UN, ECO, NAM, OIC, and OPEC. It is a major regional and middle power, and its large reserves of fossil fuels – which include the world's largest natural gas supply and the fourth-largest proven oil reserves – exert considerable influence in international energy security and the world economy. The country's rich cultural legacy is reflected in part by its 22 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the third-largest number in Asia and eleventh-largest in the world. Iran is a multicultural country comprising numerous ethnic and linguistic groups, the largest being Persians (61%), Azeris (16%), Kurds (10%), and Lurs (6%).

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Iran · See more »

Iranian Gendarmerie

The Iranian Gendarmerie also called the Government Gendarmerie (ژاندارمری دولتی Žāndārmirī-ye Daulatī), was the first modern highway patrol and rural police force in Iran.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Iranian Gendarmerie · See more »

John Augustus Wood

Colonel John Augustus Wood VC (10 June 1818 – 23 January 1878) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and John Augustus Wood · See more »

John Jacob (East India Company officer)

Brigadier-General John Jacob CB (11 January 1812 – 6 December 1858) was an officer of the British East India Company who served in colonial India for the major portion of his career.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and John Jacob (East India Company officer) · See more »

John Malcolmson

John Grant Malcolmson, (9 February 1835 – 14 August 1902) was a Bengal Army officer and a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and John Malcolmson · See more »

Kakinada

Kakinada (formerly called Cocanada) is one of the largest cities and the district headquarters of East Godavari district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Kakinada · See more »

Karun

The Kārūn (کارون) is Iran's most effluent and only navigable river.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Karun · See more »

Khanlar Mirza

Khanlar Mirza whose royal title was Ehtesham-ed-Dowleh was one of the most prominent princes of the Qajar dynasty.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Khanlar Mirza · See more »

Kharg Island

Kharg Island (جزیره خارگ) is a continental island in the Persian Gulf belonging to Iran.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Kharg Island · See more »

Khorramshahr

Khorramshahr (خرمشهر, also romanized as Khurramshahr and slightly different spellings; also known in Arabic as المحمرة al-Muḥammarah) is a city in and the capital of Khorramshahr County, Khuzestan Province, Iran.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Khorramshahr · See more »

Khorramshahr County

Khorramshahr County (شهرستان خرمشهر) is a county in Khuzestan Province in Iran.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Khorramshahr County · See more »

Khvosh Ab, Bushehr

Khvosh Ab (خوشاب, also Romanized as Khvosh Āb, Khosh Āb, Khowsh Ab, and Khūsh Āb; also known as Khāshāb) is a village in Howmeh Rural District, in the Central District of Dashtestan County, Bushehr Province, Iran.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Khvosh Ab, Bushehr · See more »

Madras Engineer Group

Madras Engineer Group (MEG), informally known as the Madras Sappers, is an engineer group of the Corps of Engineers of the Indian Army.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Madras Engineer Group · See more »

Madras Presidency

The Madras Presidency, or the Presidency of Fort St.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Madras Presidency · See more »

Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is a historical region in West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in modern days roughly corresponding to most of Iraq, Kuwait, parts of Northern Saudi Arabia, the eastern parts of Syria, Southeastern Turkey, and regions along the Turkish–Syrian and Iran–Iraq borders.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Mesopotamia · See more »

Muscat

Muscat (مسقط) is the capital and largest city of Oman.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Muscat · See more »

Naser al-Din Shah Qajar

Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (16 July 1831 – 1 May 1896) (ناصرالدین شاه قاجار), also Nassereddin Shah Qajar, was the King of Persia from 5 September 1848 to 1 May 1896 when he was assassinated.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Naser al-Din Shah Qajar · See more »

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire (دولت عليه عثمانیه,, literally The Exalted Ottoman State; Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu or Osmanlı Devleti), also historically known in Western Europe as the Turkish Empire"The Ottoman Empire-also known in Europe as the Turkish Empire" or simply Turkey, was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Ottoman Empire · See more »

Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Paris · See more »

Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf (lit), (الخليج الفارسي) is a mediterranean sea in Western Asia.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Persian Gulf · See more »

Poona Horse

The Poona Horse is an armoured regiment in the Armoured Corps of the Indian Army.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Poona Horse · See more »

Presidencies and provinces of British India

The Provinces of India, earlier Presidencies of British India and still earlier, Presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in the subcontinent.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Presidencies and provinces of British India · See more »

Qajar dynasty

The Qajar dynasty (سلسله قاجار; also Romanised as Ghajar, Kadjar, Qachar etc.; script Qacarlar) was an IranianAbbas Amanat, The Pivot of the Universe: Nasir Al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831–1896, I. B. Tauris, pp 2–3 royal dynasty of Turkic origin,Cyrus Ghani.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Qajar dynasty · See more »

Rajputana Rifles

The Rajputana Rifles is the one of the most senior rifle regiments of the Indian Army.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Rajputana Rifles · See more »

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Royal Navy · See more »

Sepoy

A sepoy was formerly the designation given to an Indian soldier.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Sepoy · See more »

Shah

Shah (Šāh, pronounced, "king") is a title given to the emperors, kings, princes and lords of Iran (historically also known as Persia).

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Shah · See more »

Shatt al-Arab

Arvand Rud (اَروَندرود, Swift River) or Shatt al-Arab (شط العرب, River of the Arabs) is a river of some 200 km (120 mi) in length, formed by the confluence of the Euphrates and the Tigris in the town of al-Qurnah in the Basra Governorate of southern Iraq.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Shatt al-Arab · See more »

Shiraz

Shiraz (fa, Šīrāz) is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars Province (Old Persian as Pars).

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Shiraz · See more »

Siege of Lucknow

The Siege of Lucknow (Hindi: लखनऊ की घेराबंदी) was the prolonged defence of the Residency within the city of Lucknow during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Siege of Lucknow · See more »

Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet

Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, GCB, KCSI (29 January 1803 – 11 March 1863) was an English general who fought in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet · See more »

Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe

Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, (4 November 1786 – 14 August 1880) was a British diplomat and politician, best known as the longtime British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe · See more »

Tehran

Tehran (تهران) is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Tehran · See more »

The Great Game

"The Great Game" was a political and diplomatic confrontation that existed for most of the nineteenth century between the British Empire and the Russian Empire over Afghanistan and neighbouring territories in Central and Southern Asia.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and The Great Game · See more »

Treaty of Paris (1857)

The Treaty of Paris (1857) marked the end of the hostilities of the Anglo-Persian War.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Treaty of Paris (1857) · See more »

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · See more »

Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest award of the British honours system.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and Victoria Cross · See more »

104th Wellesley's Rifles

The 104th Wellesley's Rifles were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and 104th Wellesley's Rifles · See more »

120th Rajputana Infantry

The 120th Rajputana Infantry were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and 120th Rajputana Infantry · See more »

123rd Outram's Rifles

The 123rd Outram's Rifles was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and 123rd Outram's Rifles · See more »

126th Baluchistan Infantry

The 126th Baluchistan Infantry was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army raised in 1825 as the 2nd Extra Battalion of Bombay Native Infantry.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and 126th Baluchistan Infantry · See more »

129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis

The 129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army raised in 1846 as the 2nd Bellochee Battalion.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and 129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis · See more »

14th Prince of Wales's Own Scinde Horse

The 14th Prince of Wales's Own Scinde Horse was a regular cavalry regiment of the Bombay Army, and later British Indian Army, it can trace its formation back to The Scinde Irregular Horse raised at Hyderabad on 8 August 1838.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and 14th Prince of Wales's Own Scinde Horse · See more »

64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot

The 64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and 64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot · See more »

78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot

The 78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot was a Highland Infantry Regiment of the Line, raised in 1793.

New!!: Anglo-Persian War and 78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot · See more »

Redirects here:

Anglo Persian War, Anglo-Persian Wars, Anglo–Persian War, Bushire (1856) (Battle honour), Bushire (Battle honour), Koosh-Ab (1856) (Battle honour), Koosh-Ab (Battle honour), Persia (Battle honour), Persia 1856-57, Persia 1856-57 (Battle honour), Persia 1856-57 (Theatre honour), Persia 1856–57, Persian War of 1856-57, Reshire (1856) (Battle honour), Reshire (Battle honour).

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Persian_War

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »