"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٨‎٥‎٤] (١٧٨٢/١٠٠٩)

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town of Mauamah. Meanwhile the fleet, seized by panic at the sight
of what was passing- on shore, instead of lending their assistance weighed
anchor and ran out of Khor -al-Qalai'ah. In executing this manoeuvre a
brig and a Baghlah grounded, and the latter was carried off by the
'Utub ; but the ''Omanis, under cover of night, succeeded in burning the
other where she lay stranded, not however before she had been stripped by
the enemy. The loss of the invading force was estimated at 500 men.
Depressed by this defeat, by the fear of further treachery, by his
wound, by an outbreak of cholera on board his ships, and by evil tidings
from his East African possessions, Saiyid Sa'id, alter several undignified
attempts to conclude a peace with the Utub, finally sailed for home with
his whole force on the 21st of November. The excuse to which he had
recourse, that his enterprise was disapproved by Heaven, did not save
him from heavy loss of prestige everywhere in the Persian Gulf; and
his altered position there may have been one of the reasons for which,
after 1828, he bestowed his attention chiefly on the distant and perhaps
less arduous held of Africa.
Sequel of these events, 1828-1829.
Rsferencs by
the Shaikh
of Bahrain
to the
British
Political
Resident,
December
1828,
Naval war
between the
'Utub of
Bahrain and
the Saiyid of
'Oman,
1829.
Immediately after the departure of the hostile fleet Shaikh 'Abdullah
wrote to Colonel D. Wilson, the Political Resident at Bushehr, to com
plain of the conduct of the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi in joining in the attack
upon Bahrain ; he appealed to the fourth Article of the General Treaty of
Peace, by which both himself and Shaikh Tahnun were bound, and
in which it was stated that" the pacificated tribes should not fight
with each other/' In reply the Resident explained the meaning of the
clause to be that the signatories should not tight with each other in a
piratical manner, but only in the way of open and declared war.
Having learned that to engage in regular hostilities was not contrary
to the Treaty of 1820, the Shaikhs of Bahrain resolved to carry war into
the enemy's waters and equipped for the purpose a fleet of seven large
vessels, to meet which two frigates were sent to sea by Saiyid Sa'id. The
Abi fleet sailed on the 21st of March 1829 under the personal co mmand
of Shaikh 'Abdullah-bin-Ahmad.
fhe wax ships from Masqat shortly fell in with a Bahrain vessel from
India, the " Saiyar," which they first tried to intimidate by long range
fire and then to board ; but, finding the ? Atbi crew prepared to receive
them with combustibles, they sheered ofi again and continued the action