File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎277v] (563/834)

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sly calculation—offered prayers, as a simple pilgrim, at the Kaaba
and the prophet’s grave. Reinforcements of soldiers, horses, and
camels had to be procured from Egypt to replace the excessive
losses of the army ; and not until the viceroy (on January 10,
1815) had defeated the Wahhabis—three thousand strong—at
Bessel, could an advance into the interior be thought of. Mean
while, Sand had died in April or May 1814, and his son Abdullah
(1814-19) reigned in his stead. The latter made overtures for
a peaceful settlement, but the viceroy abruptly rejected all
negotiations as coming too late. Matters of State called
Mohammed Ali back to Cairo, and at his departure he caused
Ibn Sand to be informed that he would send his son, Ibrahim
Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , with a great army, to lay waste the whole land in order
to deliver him dead or alive to the authorities at Stambul. And
he kept his word. Of the vicissitudes of the war of 1816-17,
which was fought with great bitterness and cruelty on both
sides, and in which Ibrahim Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. spared no money to corrupt
and placate those who submitted to him, the only outstanding
fact is the final catastrophe of the conquest and destruction of
Deraiyya. On April 14, 1817, the Egyptians began a bombard
ment of the Wahhabite capital. Heaven itself seemed to lend
its aid to the death-defying defenders, fired to fresh exertions by
the women, who, amid a rain of bullets, brought up powder,
shot and jars of water. On June 21 an extraordinary whirl
wind arose over the Egyptian camp. Fire broke out and spreading
with alarming rapidity, reached the powder magazine, and
exploded with a terrific detonation two hundred barrels of powder
and two hundred and eighty cases of cartridges and bombs.
Many men and beasts, as well as half of all the supplies, were thus
destroyed. Neither this terrible event, nor the lack of food, nor
even devastating sickness could subdue a man like Ibrahim Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. .
All sorties of the enemy were brilliantly repulsed. With new
supplies and one thousand six hundred fresh troops he resumed
the attack twenty-five days later; and while Khalil Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , with
three thousand auxiliaries, was on the way, he staked all on an
attempt to seize the town without extraneous aid. After a heroic
defence, Abdullah ibn Saud, left at the last with a bodyguard
of only four hundred blacks, was compelled to surrender on
September 9, 1817. Ibrahim Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. paid a tribute of sincere
estee/n to the bravery and noble bearing of his adversary. He
caused him to be brought to Cairo, and Mohammed Ali seemed
disposed to pardon him. Not so the Porte at Stambul. It
insisted on his delivery and simply had him executed—1819.
After the sack and destruction of Deraiyya, Ibrahim Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
returned with his army, having set up a greedy official as the
Governor of Nejd. All heavy material which he did not need
on the journey he left behind in the country ; remains thereof
at Hail are the old cannons and also an anvil of an Egyptian
field-forge.