Thuwaini Al-Saadoun campaign (1797)
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The Thuwaini Al-Saadoun Campaign of (1797) was a military campaign carried out by Sheikh Thuwaini bin Abdullah Al-Saadoun, Emir of the Iraqi Al-Muntafiq tribes, to repel Wahhabi attacks against the cities and valleys of southern Ottoman Iraq, especially the Al-Muntafiq pastures. After the matter of the Wahhabis became so severe that they constituted a real threat to the Hajj route, which prompted the Sharif of Mecca, Ghaleb bin Musaed, to explain to Sultan Selim III the fatal situation if conditions continued as they were, the Sublime Porte asked the governor of Baghdad, Minister Sulayman Pasha the Great, to eliminate the Wahhabis because of the threat and danger they posed. . However, the Pasha had reached an old age and was exhausted by old age. He was unwilling to do so and began to procrastinate and used many pretexts, and in the end, after the insistence of Istanbul, he assigned this task to Sheikh Thuwaini Al-Saadoun after he returned to him the sheikhdom of Al-Muntafiq in the year 1796 AD. Thuwaini took advantage of that opportunity and announced a general mobilization, and the Arabs of Al-Muntafiq and the people of Al-Zubayr and Basra gathered around him, and then he provided him with [clarification needed] The governor met him with an army in Al-Jahra. Thuwaini headed his campaign south towards Al-Ahsa, and did not head directly towards Diriyah, as Al-Ahsa was an easy supply center for the forces. However, Thuwaini Al-Saadoun’s campaign was not able to achieve its goal, because he was killed at the hands of one of Bani Khalid’s slaves, before he carried out any successful action against the Saudi forces that headed towards Al-Ahsa. The ranks of the Iraqi campaign were disturbed and were forced to retreat. The Saudi forces tracked it down and began chasing its remnants to the borders of Kuwait.They seized much of its equipment, cannons, and equipment, and took a lot of spoils
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Thuwaini Al-Saadoun campaign (1797) | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Emirate of Diriyah | Bani Khalid | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Saud I |
Thuwaini Al-Saadoun † Abdullah I Al-Sabah | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
1,500–4,000 | 3,000–6,000 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Slight | Heavy |