'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [155] (197/733)
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WAHABEES.
155
d. 1834
Occurrences.
March.
Dec.
ledged by all, or his delegate, the right of judging in all
cases connected with the Maritime Arabs.
The annoyance and distress created by the blockade of his
seaports leads the AVahabee to call in the assistance of the
Joasmees against Bahrein.
The application for the Joasmee naval resources, and the
discussion started by the Wahabee Agent, Abdool Azeez,
in 1833, relinquished in consequence of the violent death of
Toorkey bin Saood by the hand of his nephew, Musharee.
The maritime tribes return to their former relative
positions.
Fysul, the son of Toorkey, puts Musharee and twenty
others to the sword, and succeeds his father as Wahabee
ruler.
The
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
of Mecca farms Kateef and the surrounding
district to one Abdoolla bin JMusharee, foi 20,000 or
24,000 reals. This individual proceeds to, but precipi
tately quits the place, on the approach of troops despatched
by the Wahabee ruler, who asserts his right over, and
determination to keep it. Ahmed
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
s design in this
act supposed to be to engage Fysul in operations towards
the north-east, whilst Mahomed Ali
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
was prosecuting
his conquests in the south-west quarter of the Arabian
peninsula.
Ameer Fysul summoned, by the Egyptian Viceroy to meet
either of his Generals, Ibrahim or Hussain
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, and
afford his co-operation against the Asser Tribe, who had
successfully opposed their advance. A large Egyptian force
collected at Medina. Fysul excuses hinself, but sends his
brother with a present.
Ameer Fysul glad to listen to overtures of peace on the part
of the Bahrein Chief.
Khalid, supported by an Egyptian military force, urges his
pretensions to be Wahabee ruler.
Fysul, but now too late, tenders submission to the Egyptians.
The pretender captures Gusseem and Deriah, and defeats
Fysul in a pitched battle near Riaz.
Fysul, besieged in Dillum, surrenders himself, and is sent
a prisoner to Egypt.
The Egyptian General now throws off his disguise as the
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The volume is Selections from the records of the Bombay Government , compiled and edited by Robert Hughes Thomas, Assistant Secretary, Political Department, New Series: 24 (Bombay: Printed for Government at the Bombay Education Society's Press, 1856).
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- 1 volume (364 folios)
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The volume contains an abstract of contents on p. iii, a detailed list of contents on pp. vii-xx, an alphabetical index on pp. xxi-xxvii, and a list of maps etc on p. xviii.
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Pagination: two separate pagination sequences are present in the volume. The first sequence (pp. i-xviii) commences at the first page and terminates at the list of maps (p. xviii). A second pagination sequence then takes over (pp. 1-688), commencing at the title page and terminating at the final page. Both these pagination sequences are printed, with additions in pencil, and the numbers are found at the top (left, right or centre) of each page.
The fold-outs in this volume were not paginated by the publisher. As a result, these have been foliated using the nearest page number. For example, the fold-out attached to p.51 has been numbered as 51A.
Pagination anomalies: pp. 15, 15A; 45, 45A; 49, 49A; 51, 51A; 531, 531A.
The following pages need to be folded out to be read: 15A, 45A, 51A, 327-328, 531A.
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