"مختارات من سجلات حكومة بومباي" [‎١‎٢‎٢] (٧٣٣/١٦٤)

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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.
MUSKAT.
Occurrences.
The Persians are driven out of Oman by Ahmed bin Saeed T
the Governor of Sohar, who is elected Imaum.
The Muskatees boldly and peremptorily refuse the demand of
Persia for tribute.
A large fleet, with troops, sails against Bushire, but the ships,
dispersing, return to Muskat.
Efforts to negotiate a peace between the Imaum and Persia
fail, the former considering the conditions proposed dis
graceful.
A Muskat fleet proceeds to relieve Bussora, besieged by the
Persians. It defeats the Bushire boats, and becomes
master of the river, but the town being compelled ultimately
to surrender, returns to port.
Syud Sultan, the second son of Syud Ahmed, succeeds to the
Imaumship, usurping the authority of his elder brother,
the rightful heir, and confining him to the city of Bombac,
and its immediate vicinity, the usual residence of thelmaum.
An engagement is entered into by the Iraaum with the
British Government, to exclude the French and Dutch from
having any factory within his territories, or at Gombroon ;
to prevent the ships of the former nation entering the cove ;
and to dismiss the French, who were at the time, and had
been for many years, in his service.
The Imaum, with a view the more effectually to prosecute
his hostile intentions against Bussora, on account of some
ancient claims on the Pasha of Bagdad, negotiates a peace
with his formidable enemy the Joasmee Chief. Through