Najd Expedition

Ottoman Invasion of Nejd 1817-1818
	Part of the Ottoman–Saudi War
	; Nejd
Date	1818
Location	Nejd & Al Qasim.
Result	Egypt victory
Belligerents
Egypt	Emirate of Diriyah
Commanders and leaders
Ibrahim Pasha	Abdullah I
Strength
30,000 30 guns	6,000
Casualties and losses
800 killed	5,000 military dead,; hundreds of civilians killed,; destruction of several villages

Statue of Ibrahim Pasha in the

A Handmade image of Abdullah I

The Najd Expedition (Turkish: Nejd Seferi) was a series of military conflicts waged by Egypt on behalf of the Ottoman Empire from 1817–1818. It was part of the Wahhabi War that lasted from 1811 to 1818. The campaign of 1817/8 was led by Ibrahim Pasha, with the goal of capturing Diriyah and to suppress the Diriyah Arabs by the order of the sultan Mahmud II.

About 30,000 soldiers started from to the west of Medina, having captured the village of Mawiyah in November 1817, then Al-Rass, , Unaizah, and Buraidah in December 1817, they reached Dir'iyyah in April 1818. After a siege of several months, Abdullah bin Saud finally surrendered on September 9, 1818.

References[]

Peter Mansfield (2 September 2010). A History of the Middle East: 4th Edition. Penguin Books Limited. pp. 66–. ISBN 978-0-14-196657-1.

Najd Expedition

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