'Persian Gulf Gazetteer, Part I Historical and Political Materials, Précis of Nejd [Najd] Affairs, 1804-1904' [‎12] (25/72)

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41. This usurpation, however, was ehortlived ; it lasted only until Turki's
son Fejsal, who at the time was coaducting military operations near Katif
m Hasa, could return to Riadh. Meshari was then executed, and Fevsal
euoceeded his father as Sultan of Nejd.
42. Fey sal was about 34 years of age. He at once applied himself to
restore order in the central provinces, where recent events had thrown everv-
thmg into confusion. ^
XI. (1) Second Egyptian invasion- (2) British pressure ooinnels
the Egyptians to withdraw. 1836—1840.
43. Very small leisure liowevor was allowed him for this task. In 1836
a large Egyptian force was assembled at Medina, and Feysal was summoned
as a vassal to bring in a contingent of troops to the Egyptian General. iWsal
evadi d I his demand ; but when he found the following year that the preten-
u a nV .''' I" 06 ' 11 ' 8 cousil1 Khalid, were about to be forcibly taken up
y the Egyptians, he made a tender of full submission. It was too late The
S If!* r er ■ w'J the P retender Khalid in his wake, advanced into
Nejd and after a battle near Rindh became master of the country. In
™ 1 . 838 Hasa a ' nd were added to the Egyptian conquests, and
I/vnf ' rrp nd r d hlm f lf t0 Khurshed I 'asha, was sent a prisoner to
•Egypt- K burs I led lasha now threw off the cloak afforded by Khalid's claims
to the throne, and declared Nejd an appanage of Egypt.
_4i. The Foreign Office has some bulky records of this period relating to
affairs in Arabia, but there is little in them of value with reference to the purnoscs
of this Precis. Eor the Wahabis had now been swallowed up by the E "vptiau
power and therefore not only was the attention of the Indian Government
oncentrated on the Egyptians only, but its policy became coloured by exclu
sively European considerations. Lord Palmerston w*s t ,7 ff % ®
hantly cari7ing through, in the teeth of France as administered by M Thiers'
etermmation to reduce Mahomed Ali, the too powerful Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. of FcTT7T ) f ,
to a proper subordination as vassal of the Porte. -'Wpt,
45. Instead therefore of viewing the downfall of Wahabi fanaticism nnrl
the rise ot sem.-ciy.lised Egypt in its stead with any of that indifference or
omplacency which, if the event could be repeated, might now perhans be f^lf
the Indian Government omitted no effort of diplomacy to counSacrthe Iro
gress ot the Egyptian Generals. The Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. entered a
formal protest against the proceedings of Khurshed Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. ind tnnV -J Vf
cuSTthdr'rd iTZTenHwrt
to blockade the Arabian pfrts in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. TelTtf w con . tem P la «o>»
Nejd - The ^ ^
XII.—Government of Khalid as Turkish Vicegerent, 1840-41.
fromlbe^ihHme 'po ^te ^'for it' was' at'tln!^ office , b 7 d;rect appointment
Turkish Government first came forvnird as claimant ^o'alTtb 1 ' 8 ^ the
eignty m Cenlral Arabia aonnn^rl hxr fi f „ . ^ ri ghts ot sover-
AH, and his Egyptian troops In alinSn C0 f 3 ?? uests of lts Lieutenant, Mahomed
seems to have^intended that Khalid's Govfrnm 8 a ^ rau » er ^® nt Khurshed Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
control from an Bgyptia^^^^ on under
British Government^In^the'first'instance^ 0 0f COntao,; witl1 the
to the British Native Agent Non-British agents affiliated with the British Government. at Bahrein pvh a e8Sed a ver y friendly letter
the amicable and cordial relations wMnh f P ressin g an earnest desire to renew
grandfather, Saud, and the Bdt^ f ^merly subsisted between his great-
before to open the correspondence but hnTT 311 ' g t J lat 116 had wished
ponaence, but had been prevented by his Egyptian