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Ras-al -Kliaimah ; but the latter, on the way to his appointed place of
exile, broke his arrest and took refuge with the Shaikh of Dibai. Military
movements followed which are described in the history of Trucial 'Oman,
and Shaikh Sultan, after basely betraying his allies, concluded an arrange
ment with the Shaikh of Dibai, and even replaced Saqar in the govern
ment of Sharjah without so much as requiring of him a guarantee not to
molest Shaikh Salih and the other loyalists in the town of Sharjah.
Shaikh Saqar continued in charge of Sharjah until his death in battle
with the Shaikh of Umm-al-Qaiwain in 1846. He appears to have been
succeeded by 'Abdullah, another son of Shaikh Sultan, whose mother
belonged to an A1 'Ali family of Tavuneh on the Persian Coast.
'Abdullali ; s government was signalised chiefly by his treacherous attempt,
noticed elsewhere, to seize the fort of 'Ajman in 184-8 ; but he continued
in office until 1855, when he was killed in fighting at Hamriyah.
In 1854 occurred the first of a series of rebellions by the inhabitants
of Hamriyah, a township on the coast, against the authority of the
Shaikh of Sharjah, their lawful ruler. The cause of the trouble on this
occasion was a blood-feud that arose between the Huwalah of Sharjah
town and a body of the Shwaihiyin, recent immigrants into that place,
who numbered about 500 fighting men. On the interested advice _ of
Ahmad-as-Sadairi, the Wahhabi representative in Iruciai Oman, Shaikh
Sultan-bin-Saqar somewhat hastily transferred the Shwaihiyin to
Hamriyah ; and here they immediately began to concert measures with
'Abdm Rahman-bin-Saif, the headman of the village, for averting the
independence of the place against Sharjah. W hen Captain Kem ja , ie
British Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , visited the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. on his annual tour
in September 1854, he was approached by Shaikh Sultan with a request
for permission to coerce the people of Hamriyah by maritime operations ;
but Captain Kemball, though unwilling to encourage the rebels, persuaded
the Shaikh—chiefly on the grourd that, as Hamriyah was situated
between 'Aj^fcn and Umm-al Qaiwain, the Shaikhs ot those places might
be drawn into the fray-to promise that he would postpone P roce ® d ^
by sea and not undertake them, even in the last resoi , tvi ou a
reference to the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. . -r i i • o '-j
Affairs at Lingeh, where his young rdation K ha j lf + ^ 1 "; ^
minor—was chief, obliged Shaikh Sultan^ after is in r ,1 en _
several months on the Persian coast. During us a eenc _.. ^
trusted the handling of the Hamriyah affairto^
Wahhabi representative. This faithless individual, a ^ er ted to in .
under pretence of mediation to aggravate tlu> quaiu ' " . - j . an( |
troduce a Wahh.bi garrison of his own ^ the ^of Hamr.yah ^and,
on the failure of this scheme, he induced SI ^ i / against the
while returned home, to undertake operations by sea an „ - ^ ^
refractory township. Captain Kemball, ani\ ing 0 , i ^ a l rea dy been
Won the 31st of May ^ 855, found that he ^
invested for 25 days, during which penod no that one had been
Shaikh Sultan had reached him, though it M as s Qasimi Shaikh's
despatched. The besieging force consisted ot tbe U men an d of a
own levies, of the Wahhabi agent s ^inue^ < art -|] er y
contingent from 'Ajman upwards of 8 ,00 6 ht f rom Lingeh,
amounted to five guns, of which two
Administra
tion of
Sbarjah
town, 1840-
55.
Rebellion of
the headman
of Hatnriyaht
1854-55.