"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٠‎٨‎٦] (١٧٨٢/١٢٤١)

1086
Egyptian
victory at
Jabal Mawi-
vah,1817.
Unsuccessful
siege of Rass
by the Egyp
tians, 1817.
Capture of
Khabrah and
'Anaizali by
the Egyp
tians, 1817.
Shaqrah
taken, 22nd
January
1818.
of Egyptian cavalry behind them and suffered heavy loss, the Egyptians
themselves escaping with less than 20 casualties.
At the request of the friendly Arabs, whom the Bedouins of the
Wahhabis had now begun to annoy, a force with two guns was sent by
the Egyptian commander to Jabal Mawiyah, on the road from Ilanaki-
yah to Rass, and was there attacked by the enemy under the Amir
' Abdullah; the result of this engagement was very unfavourable
to the Wahhabis, whose bleaching skeletons still strewed the plain
when it was traversed by Captain Sadleir in September 1819; and
the Amir himself fled through Rass to 'Andzah in Qasim. Ibrahim
Pasha, who was in the rear and did not arrive until the fighting was
over, followed the barbarous example of the "Wahhabis upon this occasion
by putting allhis prisoners to death. Having collected his entire force
at Mawiyah, to the *number of 1,200 cavalry and 4,000 infantry, he
advanced against Rass and was openly joined by the Shaikh of the Mutair
tribe, who had a feud against the Wahhabi Amir; on the way, appa
rently, he made an excursion against the 'Anizah tribe.
Arrived before Rass, Ibrahim prepared to carry that place at once; but
the walls resisted the fire of his artillery for three days; and, when a
breach haxl been opened, his troops were repulsed with heavy loss in
attempting to storm it. The siege was then continued without success
for three and a half months, and was ultimately abandoned. The Egyp
tians lost some 900 men killed and 1,000 wounded in these operations, and
they expended 400 camel loads of small arms ammunition and 30,000
artillery rounds, but the casualties among the besieged only amounted to 50
killed and 70 wounded. A sort of agreement was apparently formed with
the inhabitants of Hass, under which the fate of their town should be
decided by that of 'Anaizah, the capital of Qasim.
The Pasha consoled himself for his failure at Rass by taking Khabrah,
which only stood one day's siege. He next advanced against 'Anaizah,
while the Amir 'Abdullah retreated upon Buraidah; 'Anaizah fell after a
six days' bombardment; and the Amir then retired southwards to
Shaqrah, where he remained during the next two months. Ibrahim
Pasha occupied Buraidah on its evacuation by 'Abdullah, and the whole
of Qasim submitted to the Egyptians.t
On the 13th of January 1818, Ibrahim Pasha arrived near Shaqrah,
the principal place in Washam, and reconnoitred the environs with 800
less.
Captain Sadleii makes the strength of the Egyptians at this time very much
t Sadleir gives a somewhat different version of this part of the campaign.