Henry Lindsay Bethune
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Major-General Sir Henry Lindsay Bethune, 1st Baronet, de jure 9th Earl of Lindsay was a Scottish military officer. He was a member of a British diplomatic and military mission led by John Malcolm to t
Tombstone of Bethune at the Saints Thaddeus and Bartholomew Church of Tehran
Henry Lindsay Bethune received the Order of the Lion and the Sun in 1816.
Franco-Persian alliance
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A Franco-Persian alliance, also known as Franco-Iranian alliance, or the Gardane Mission, was formed for a short period between the French Empire of Napoleon I and Fath Ali Shah of Iran against Russia
Henry Lindsay Bethune
…service, and retired to Kilconquhar. According to the 19th century British diplomat Sir Justin Sheil: "English influence becoming supreme, and the French Mission having quitted Persia, it was determined to accede to the wishes of the Persian Government and continue the same military organization. Sir John Malcolm…
The Iranian Envoy Mirza Mohammad-Reza Qazvini meeting with Napoleon I at the Finckenstein Palace, 27 April 1807, to sign the Treaty of Finckenstein. François Mulard.
The French General Horace Sebastiani negotiated a Franco-Ottoman alliance with Selim III.
Letter of Fath-Ali Shah to Napoleon I, thanking him for the letter received through M. Jaubert, and asking for military instructors, December 1806.
The Treaty of Finckenstein between Persia and France, ratified 10 May 1807.