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124 MUSK AT.

Date.
Occurrences.
A. D. 180 The management of affairs is entrusted by the two sons to
Syud J3eder, their cousin, who, with the Wahabec Chief’s
assistance, defeats dies.
1805 Syud Bcder recovers Bunder Abbas and Ormus, of which
places the Shaikh of Kishm, availing himself of the troubles
that had ensued on the death of the late Imaum had pos-
scssed himself.
1807 Syud Saeed, the second son of the late Imaum, who had now
succeeded Syud Beder, defeats an expedition against
Mukran by the Joasmee pirates.
1S08 An attack by the Imaum against Khore Fukaun fails, in
consequence of the treacherous desertion of an auxiliary
Chief of the Fajarah Tribe. The Imaum narrowly escapes
to his ship, and Syud Giles loses his life in the affray, and
is succeeded by his son Azan.
The Wahabees establish their influence at Muskat, and
commence to propagate by violence the tenets of their
particular sect. Some instances of oppression on their
part, indeed the common danger, reunited the Shaikhs
of Oman, who determine on a vigorous resistance to
Saood.
1809 An expedition was despatched by the British Government,
for the protection of Muskat against the Wahabees, in
order that a well disposed ally might not be converted into
a dangerous enemy, through their influence and compul­
sion; and for the suppression of the Joasmee pirates.
(Vide Joasmees.)
1811 The Imaum’s brother sails on an expedition against Bahrein
and Zobara. The latter is taken, plundered, and levelled
with the ground. The troops and battering train are landed
on the former, where the brother of the governor, and the
Duryah Begee of the Wahabee fleet, with fifteen of their
principal officers, are made prisoners.
An expedition by the Imaum against Ras-ool-Khyma, for the
1813
purpose of reinstating Sultan bin Suggur, fails.
the chiefs and
A second expedition had started, when
1814 solicit peace, which
inhabitants send a mediator to him, to
the Imaum grants, and returns to the island of Ormu*-.
The Imaum’s fleet is beaten ofi by the Joasmee fleet,
1815 He returns to Muskat,
frigate, the Caroline, nearly taken