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Date. Occurrences.

country. Invites Shaikh Sultan to Deriah, and detains and
imprisons him. Shaikh Sultan contrives to escape from
prison, and, finding his way to Yemen, embarks at Mocha,
an d proceeds to Muskat. The Imaum takes him to Shargah,
and places him over the Joasmee Tribe at that place,
Shaikh Sultan occasionally living at Lingah.
a. d. 1800The British Government, determining to relieve the Imaum
from the power of the Wahabees, and to suppress their
piracies, despatch an expedition to the Gulf.
13th Nov. Ras-ool-Khyma, vigorously attacked by sea and land, is
taken, after a bloody resistance. The town, with the vessels
in port, amounting to upwards of fifty, with the English
prize ship Minerva, burnt.
The expedition then proceeds to Lingah, and destroys twenty
Dows; thence, after passing Congoon, Bunder Mullim,
and Homeram, to Luft. The town is soon occupied, but
all attempts to carry the fort by storm fail. The bombard-
i ment continued.
The fort is surrendered, together with property to the amount
of two lakhs of rupees, belonging to the Imaum, which,
with the fort, are handed over to His Highness.

1st Jan. Shinas attacked by the combined British and Imaum’s forces.
1810 After an obstinate and sanguinary resistance, the fort sur­
renders, and is made over to His Highness ; but now in so
ruined a state that it cannot be occupied.
1812 The pirates reappear in the beginning of this year, and
destroy several large Native craft, belonging to Bussora :
and Congoon. Boats carrying British colours do not
escape, and others are detained at Porebunder, and pre­
vented from prosecuting their mercantile pursuits.
1813 An expedition by the Imaum against Ras-ool-Khyma, with
the view of reinstating Sultan bin Suggur, fails.
1814 A second expedition this year, for a similar purpose, ter­
minates in a peace concluded between the Imaum of Muskat
and the Joasmees, to which Shaikh Suggur is compelled to
become a party.
1814-15 The Joasmees commit many depredations upon the Indian
trade, and insult the British flag, by plundering and retain­
ing a boat, despatched by the British Resident
faith of an engagement entered into early in the year 1814.
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