This is an AAR in version 1.2 as Abu Dhabi. It will be a combination of minor roleplaying elements and gameplay. I have very little knowledge of the history of the area, this will be largely fictional. This is one of my first AARs so bear with me. I apologise in advance for the amount of writing in the early days. Believe me, the sooner I get to the gameplay the better for all of us. Hopefully I will get the hang of it soon.
Waheed Saad looked upon his old home with trepidation from the English clipper whose deck he stood on. He had been sent to England to study by his affluent father, a pearl trader from Abu Dhabi. Waheed became interested in the politics of the day. He spent some time as an aide to an English diplomat.
In 1820, in the name of preventing piracy in the Persian Gulf the English brought ships into the gulf and sunk a number of ships claiming they were pirates. After this a treaty was signed with the emirs of a number of emirates on as it was known then the "Pirate Coast". This treaty was made with Waheed acting as translator and indeed scribe of the treaty documents.
Part of the translated document reads as followed.
"In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate! Praise be to God, who hath ordained peace to be a blessing to his creatures! There is established a lasting peace between the British Government and the Arab tribes, who are parties to the contract, on the following conditions:
Art. 3. The friendly Arabs shall carry, by land and by sea, a red flag, with or without letters in it, at their option; and this shall be in a border of white, the breadth of the white in the border being equal to the breadth of the red, as represented in the margin, the whole forming the flag known in the British Navy by the title of 'White pierced Red'; and this shall be the flag of the friendly Arabs, and they shall use it, and no other.
Art. 4. The pacificated tribes shall all of them continue in their former relations, with the exception that they shall be at peace with the British Government, and shall not fight with each other; and the flag shall be a symbol of this only, and of nothing further.
Art. 10. The vessels of the friendly Arabs, bearing their flag above described, shall enter into all the British ports, and into the ports of the allies of the British, so far as they shall be able to effect it, and they shall buy and sell therein; and if any shall attack them, the British Government shall take notice of it."
Thus the maritime flags were changed from
to
The emirates of Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Uum al-Quwain and Sharjah all signed the treaty. The Al Khalifa tribe who had recently come to rule Bahrain also signed up to the treaty which included Qatar as it was at the time a dependency of Bahrain governed by the Al Thani tribe. The Al Khalifas received more assurances from the British than the others as they were directly threatened by the Al Sauds in the region that was called Nedj.
The Al Sauds were recovering to form a second state after their first had been crushed by the Egyptians at Ottoman behest. The rivaly between the Al Sauds and the Al Rashids would shape the future of the Nejd region in the future.
The Ras al-Khaimah emirate would be occupied by the British for a number of years as they took the brunt of the blame for piracy in the gulf. They would sign the treaty in 1822. It was then that Waheed returned to England. He rose in the ranks and in 1828 found himself as the premier diplomat to the "Trucial Coasts", as the signees of the treaty were now known.
Emirates United: Introduction - British Influence
Waheed Saad looked upon his old home with trepidation from the English clipper whose deck he stood on. He had been sent to England to study by his affluent father, a pearl trader from Abu Dhabi. Waheed became interested in the politics of the day. He spent some time as an aide to an English diplomat.
In 1820, in the name of preventing piracy in the Persian Gulf the English brought ships into the gulf and sunk a number of ships claiming they were pirates. After this a treaty was signed with the emirs of a number of emirates on as it was known then the "Pirate Coast". This treaty was made with Waheed acting as translator and indeed scribe of the treaty documents.
Part of the translated document reads as followed.
"In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate! Praise be to God, who hath ordained peace to be a blessing to his creatures! There is established a lasting peace between the British Government and the Arab tribes, who are parties to the contract, on the following conditions:
Art. 3. The friendly Arabs shall carry, by land and by sea, a red flag, with or without letters in it, at their option; and this shall be in a border of white, the breadth of the white in the border being equal to the breadth of the red, as represented in the margin, the whole forming the flag known in the British Navy by the title of 'White pierced Red'; and this shall be the flag of the friendly Arabs, and they shall use it, and no other.
Art. 4. The pacificated tribes shall all of them continue in their former relations, with the exception that they shall be at peace with the British Government, and shall not fight with each other; and the flag shall be a symbol of this only, and of nothing further.
Art. 10. The vessels of the friendly Arabs, bearing their flag above described, shall enter into all the British ports, and into the ports of the allies of the British, so far as they shall be able to effect it, and they shall buy and sell therein; and if any shall attack them, the British Government shall take notice of it."
Thus the maritime flags were changed from
to
The emirates of Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Uum al-Quwain and Sharjah all signed the treaty. The Al Khalifa tribe who had recently come to rule Bahrain also signed up to the treaty which included Qatar as it was at the time a dependency of Bahrain governed by the Al Thani tribe. The Al Khalifas received more assurances from the British than the others as they were directly threatened by the Al Sauds in the region that was called Nedj.
The Al Sauds were recovering to form a second state after their first had been crushed by the Egyptians at Ottoman behest. The rivaly between the Al Sauds and the Al Rashids would shape the future of the Nejd region in the future.
The Ras al-Khaimah emirate would be occupied by the British for a number of years as they took the brunt of the blame for piracy in the gulf. They would sign the treaty in 1822. It was then that Waheed returned to England. He rose in the ranks and in 1828 found himself as the premier diplomat to the "Trucial Coasts", as the signees of the treaty were now known.
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