"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٠‎٨‎٤] (١٧٨٢/١٢٣٩)

1084
Amir was in Qasim, prepared to oppose the movements of Tusun; but on
learning- of the disaster at Bisal he returned to Dara'iyah, dreading- it
would appear, an advance against his capital by the Egyptian forces in
the south.
Tl V 6° C p«.h 0 f Ab0Ut the end March 1815 ' TS6iin Pft6ha ,eft for Qa6im , whither
into yasim, liad already despatched about 400 cavalry; he took with him 200 or
March. Ma y, 3 00 cav al r y, 400 infantry and about 400 transport camels ; and a few
hundred Bedouins of the Harb and Mutair also followed his standard.
On the way he halted for a month at Hanakiyah, and while there
he received orders from Muhammad 'Ali to return to Madinah; but Tusun
who was now his father's equal in rank, declined to obey the command!
Muhammad 'Ali, it should be observed, was now at Madinah, where he
had arrived unexpectedly on the I4th of April, after his son's departure;
but his time there was fully occupied in dealing with local troubles!
Early in May Tusun Pasha arrived in Qasim, and he was joined at Raas
by his political friends among the Qusman and by the cavalry whom he
had despatched in advance; but Hijailan, the principal man in Qasim,
who was warmly attached to the cause of Ibn Sa'ud, would have no
dealings with him and instead collected a hostile force at Buraidah.
position of 0 , n tbe arnval oi the Amir 'Abdullah at Shinanah, with a consider-
the Egyp- a jle iorce, both Hedoum and non-Bedouin, Tusun Pasha found himself
Qa^J n May- m p0sitio11; for the Wahhabis were able to prevent his drawing
June 1815. su PP li es from any but a few of the nearer villages, and in the meantime
a detachment of 250 horsemen, sent as a reinforcement from Madinah,
had been surrounded and cut up by Wahhabis on the road. This ill-fated
party was commanded by Ibrahim Agha or Thomas Keith, whom Tusun
a had left in chaige of Madinah as governor, and who sustained his
eputation foi courage to the last by killing four of the enemy with hie
own hand before he fell. Meanwhile Muhammad 'Ali Pasha, who showed
teiest iii his son s operations but rather appeared jealous of his
ievements, hurriedly left \anbo' on the 20th of May and returned to
gvpt: m extenuation of his conduct it is alleged that his health had
ered by his residence in Arabia, and that he feared an attack by the
1 urkish fleet upon his port of Alexandria.
return of ^ SS . ^ Egyptians was not, it would seem, fully apparent
Tusun Pasha to ^ ahhabis, or the Amir i. 4.1 £ u +
to Madinah, milRf • .1 , . ' believin ^ tha t the resources of Egypt
June 1815. ie . eiI i I )ievai ' over his own more slender means, thought it
1 0 r ^ e ^ 10m ^ ie contest; whatever the reason, 'Abdullah readily
to t ie suggestions for a settlement which now proceeded from
tieaty was ananged by which the Amir abandoned his claim