The Battle of Jeddah was fought in 1813 at the west

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n port city of Jeddah as part of the

Ottoman–Saudi War The Ottoman-Saudi War ( ar, الحرب العثمانية-السعودية, translit=al-ḥarb al-ʿUthmānīyah-al-Saʿūdīyah, ) also known as the Ottoman/Egyptian-Saudi War (1811–1818) was fought from early 1811 to 1818, between the Ot ...

. The Ottoman army of

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retreated from

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which had been captured by the Saudis, and a new army led by his father

Muhammad Ali Pasha Muhammad Ali Pasha al-Mas'ud ibn Agha, also known as Muhammad Ali of Egypt and the Sudan ( sq, Mehmet Ali Pasha, ar, محمد علي باشا, ; ota, محمد علی پاشا المسعود بن آغا; ; 4 March 1769 – 2 August 1849), was ...

arrived from

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. The combined forces quickly marched to defend the city of Jeddah immediately from the advancing Saudis, and the Ottoman puppet ruler Ghalib ibn Musa'id was sent to

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as a prisoner to avoid any sort of cooperation between him and the Arab rebels. A few days later, the Saudi forces captured Jeddah and forced the Ottoman army to retreat. Sultan

Mahmud II Mahmud II ( ota, محمود ثانى, Maḥmûd-u s̠ânî, tr, II. Mahmud; 20 July 1785 – 1 July 1839) was the 30th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1808 until his death in 1839. His reign is recognized for the extensive administrative, ...

tried to negotiate with the Saudi rebels by using

Ghalib Efendi Ghālib ibn Musā‘id ibn Sa‘īd ( ar, غالب بن مساعد بن سعيد) was a sharif who served as Sharif and Emir of Mecca from 1788 to 1813. Succession to the Emirate Ghalib was the son of the Emir of Mecca Musa'id ibn Sa'id (r. 1752- ...

as a negotiation tool however the negotiations failed and Ghalib ibn Musa'id was instead exiled to

and later

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by the Ottomans. Jeddah then came under Saudi rule after this battle.

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