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Talal battle

The Second Battle of Talal took place in the year 1873 between the army of Imam Saud bin Faisal bin Turki Al Saud and members of the Otaiba tribe.[1][2][3][4][5]

Talal battle
Part of List of wars involving Saudi Arabia
Date1873
Location
Mount Talal in Aley Najd (administratively located in Al-Hanakiyah Governorate near Talal Hijrat)[6]
Result The victory of the Otaiba tribe
Belligerents
  • Emirate of Najd
  • Ajman tribe
  • Mutair tribe
  • Subay' tribe
  • Suhool tribe
  • Dawasir tribe
    • Commanders and leaders
    Muslit bin Rubayan Saud bin Faisal Al Saud
    Strength
    800

    8,000 fighters (according to Sheliwih Al-Atawi’s poem and some sources)[7]

    3000 fighters (according to another source)[8]
    Casualties and losses
    light losses heavy losses

    This battle is one of the reasons for the weakness of the second Saudi state and its subsequent fall at the hands of Ibn Rashid.

    Famous riders from the Otaiba tribe participated

    The reasons for the battle

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    After the Battle of Al-Bura in the year 1871,[9] a delegation of tribal chiefs congratulated Imam Saud bin Faisal Al Saud on his victory over his brother Imam Abdullah. And when the affairs of Imam Saud's army improved, he went to fight Muslit bin Rubayan because of the raids he made on Riyadh in favor of Imam Abdullah.

    Participating tribes

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    Some tribes joined the side of Imam Saud to fight Muslit bin Rubayan, and among those tribes: the Ajman tribe, the Mutair tribe, the Subay' tribe, the Suhool tribe, and the Dawasir tribe.[10]

    Battle

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    The news reached Sheikh Muslit before the arrival of the army of Imam Saud, and Muslit bin Rubayan and those with him were present in Harrat Kashab at Jabal Talal.[10]

    Muslit bin Rubayan removed the women and money from the battle site and prepared those with him to fight, their number was 800 men, and the army of Imam Saud numbered 3,000 fighters.[11] The two teams fought from morning until noon, then Imam Saud was defeated, Muslit's army seized his camp and his horses, and Imam Saud and those who stayed with him fled to Riyadh when he was wounded.[11] This battle was decisive in the history of Imam Saud, for which there was no list after that.[11][10][12]

    Losses

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    The battle caused the death of Saud bin Sunitan Al Saud, Muhammad Ahmad Al-Sudairy, the governor of the city of Ghat, and Ali bin Ibrahim bin Suwaid, the governor of the city of Jalajel. It also caused the death of Fahd bin Sadhan, Saleh bin Ibrahim bin Musa bin Fawzan bin Issa, Suleiman bin Abdullah bin Khalaf bin Issa, Saad bin Muhammad bin Abdul Karim. Al Bawardi, who are residents of the city of Shaqra[12] He died from the army of Imam Saud because of being lost in the desert, and they died of thirst

    References

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    1. ^ Treasury of Najd Histories, Volume Three: The History of Ibn Dowayan page 193
    2. ^ Junaidel: Saad, The Geographical Dictionary of Saudi Arabia, Aliyah Najd, Part One, Dar Al-Yamamah Publications, Riyadh, p. 884
    3. ^ Al Abdul Qadir, Masterpiece of the Beneficiary, Part 1, page 298
    4. ^ Mohammed bin Ali Al Obaid. alnajm allaamie lilnawadir (in Arabic).
    5. ^ Muhammad Ahmad Ali Al-Maqtouf Al-Asiri. min akhbar alqabayil (in Arabic). p. 70.
    6. ^ سعد بن عبدالله بن جنيدل. المعجم الجغرافي للبلاد العربية السعودية عالية نجد القسم الأول أ - ح. الرياض: دار اليمامة للبحث والترجمة والنشر. p. 882 - 884.
    7. ^ أبي عبدالرحمن بن عقبل الظاهري (1986). تاريخ نجد في عصور العامية (in Arabic) (4an ed.). دار العلوم. pp. 171ص.
    8. ^ عبد الله البسام (1999). خرانة التواريخ النجدية. Vol. 7 (1 ed.). الرياض: دار العاصمة. p. 265.
    9. ^ Treasury of Najd Histories, Volume VII: Mutla' al-Saud in the History of Najd and the House of Saud. Page 261
    10. ^ a b c Treasury of Najd Histories, Volume VII: Mutla' al-Saud in the History of Najd and the House of Saud. Page 264
    11. ^ a b c Treasury of Najd Histories, Volume VII: Mutla' al-Saud in the History of Najd and the House of Saud. Page 265
    12. ^ a b Abdullah bin Mohammed Al-Bassam. Masterpiece of the Mushtaq in the news of Najd, Hijaz and Iraq (in Arabic).
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