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Travels in Chaldæa: Including a Journey from Bussorah to Bagdad, Hillah, and Babylon, Performed on Foot in 1827. With Observations on the Sited and Remains of Babel, Seleucia, and Ctesiphon
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Marshall, Brian (1994). "European Travellers in Oman and Southeast Arabia 1795–1950: A Biobibliographical Study". In Bidwell, R.L.; Rex Smith, G; Smart, J.R. (eds.).
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A Winter Journey through Russia, the Caucasian Alps, and Georgia, thence across Mount Zagos, and by the Pass of Xenophon and the Ten housand Greeks, into Koordistan
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In the lands of the Romanovs: an annotated bibliography of first-hand English-language accounts of the Russian Empire (1613-1917)
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Mignan was promoted to captain on 11 September 1830 and major of the right wing on 15 August 1847. His last commission was
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on 3 May 1820. In January 1821, he was part of an expeditionary force of 2,695 men under the command of General
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Travels in Chaldæa: Including a Journey from Bussorah to Bagdad, Hillah, and Babylon, Performed on Foot in 1827
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envoy extraordinary, returning to Persia after conveying regrets at the murder of the Russian diplomat
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In the 1820s, Mignan commanded the escort attached to the resident of the
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A Winter Journey through Russia, the Caucasian Alps, and Georgia
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to return to his military duties in India. Travelling through
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who convinced him to explore the western coastline of the
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Index

Linnean Society of London
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Bombay Army
1st European Regiment
Lionel Smith
punitive campaign
Oman
British East India Company
Iraq
Ctesiphon
Babylon
London
St. Petersburg
Russian
Khosrow Mirza
Persian
Alexander Griboedov
Teheran
Alexander von Humboldt
Caspian Sea
Novocherkassk
Caucasus
Tiflis
Russian Georgia
brevet lieutenant colonel
Poonah
Travels in Chaldæa: Including a Journey from Bussorah to Bagdad, Hillah, and Babylon, Performed on Foot in 1827. With Observations on the Sited and Remains of Babel, Seleucia, and Ctesiphon
"A Brief Sketch of the Present State of Georgia, now a Russian Province"
"Journal of a tour through Georgia, Persia, and Mesopotamia"
A Winter Journey through Russia, the Caucasian Alps, and Georgia, thence across Mount Zagos, and by the Pass of Xenophon and the Ten housand Greeks, into Koordistan

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