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:Briefly mentions the Indo-European Telegraph Department connecting India with Baghdad, in the early 1860’s, the route being Karachi, Gwadur (Baluchistan), Fao (now Fawr, Iraq), Basra, Baghdad, (then part of greater Turkey), and from there to Europe.
*This [http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2009/english-literature-history-children39s-books-illustrations-l09773/lot.6.html link] (Sothebys) gives details of the papers and career of Sir Harford Jones. At the age of 19, Jones was posted to Basra in the service of the East India Company, to be assistant factor. He remained in the post for a decade (1783-1794). He was Resident in Baghdad from 1798 to 1804.
*This [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Memoirs_of_Baghdad_Kurdistan_and_Turkish.html?id=d4hfAAAACAAJ link] gives details of the book ''Memoirs of Baghdad, Kurdistan & Turkish Arabia 1857'' by J. F Jones , Indian Navy, a 1998 facsimile re-publication , one of the volumes in a series of Bombay Government Records, no. XLIII, new series published 1857. originally published with the title ''Memoirs by Commander James Felix Jones'' It includes "Memoir on the Province of Baghdad, 1855" which gives much information about Baghdad at that time. Available Reprint edition available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01011403809. Original edition available on the pay website [https://granthsanjeevani.com/jspui/handle/123456789/15202 Asiatic Society of Mumbai] granthsanjeevani.com.
*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/iraq.htm Iraq] Britishempire.co.uk
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081010170201/http://www.stanford.edu/group/wais/Iraq/iraq_041115_britsinmesopotamia.htm The British in Mesopotamia] stanford.edu, now archived.
