Walpole's admonition: Iranians should not create another Nadir Shah
Robert Walpole Robert Walpole Prime Minister of England 1721 Until 1742, in April 1739 And 15 The day after Nader Shah's arrival in Delhi, he planned to expand his influence and establishment throughout India for an unspecified period of time. (That lasted decades) postponed.
وی (Born 1676 and deceased in 1745) In the second decade of his prime ministership, he implemented two foreign expansion plans (dominance) had in mind; Establishing throughout India and removing European competitors such as Portugal and Holland from that subcontinent and gaining superiority over Spain in Latin America.
With the fall of India to the Shah of Iran in the winter 1739 and England's defeat in the Battle of Cartagena (Northwest of today's Colombia and close to Panama in the Caribbean, these areas, along with Venezuela, were called Spanish Granada at that time.. The name of Cartagena is taken from the Mediterranean Carthage and today its ruins are located in Tunisia)The implementation of the first plan was postponed and the second plan failed completely.
At the naval battle of Cartagena, England 50 battleship and 18 It lost a thousand musketeers, and Spain maintained its supremacy in Latin America until losing the war with the United States over Cuba in the late 19th century.. During the Cartagena War, the Spanish used the people of a tribe of natives of the region, who today mainly live in Venezuela and Colombia, and told them that if the British won, they would do the same to the natives as they did to the natives of North America. (destruction) And the natives of the Caribbean brought the English riflemen to their knees under the Spanish flag.
Walpole's political advice after the defeat of the army of the Mughal emperor of India in the Karnal plain by the Iranian army and the surrender of the emperor and Nader's entry into Delhi was that it should not be possible for the Iranians to (From the Euphrates to the Indus and from Sihon to the North Caucasus) come together and create another rare general. This advice, which has become part of the London government's foreign policy, caused the British to separate Afghanistan and Eastern Baluchistan from Iran in the next century, and to remove the southern and western regions of the Persian Gulf from the influence of the Iranian government, and to allow the Russians to occupy the Caucasus. and to open the Fararod area and to force the Qajar Shah to give Sulaymaniyah of Iraq to the Ottomans and to pass Iran's claims on Basra and the east of the Tigris. …. Walpole ruled England longer than any other prime minister.
Nader, after assuring the continued loyalty of the Indian government, shortly after entering Delhi and after hearing that his brother Ibrahim Khan in Dagestan (Southern Russia) He was killed in the same year 1739 From Delhi to Dagestan (North Caucasus) He gave him money to the Lezgis who had killed his brother Ibrahim Khan, the governor of the North Caucasus. At the same time, he destroyed several necks in Bukhara and Samarkand.
author (Noshirvan Kihanizadeh)
