User:Loix33/Siege of the Rass

The Egyptian campaign arrived at Hijaz, led by Ibrahim Muhammad Ali Pasha in Dhu al-Qi'dah in the year 1231 AH, and it was joined by groups of the tribes Harrib, Mutair and Utaiba, Unayzah. Ibrahim Pasha marched to Qassim, but before incursion too much into Qassim, he clashed several time with the forces of Imam Abdullah bin Saud bin Abdulaziz bin Muhammad Al Saud. Ibrahim's forces prevailed in the end .After that, he continued to crawl until he reached the town of Al-Rass and began its siege.

The famous siege took place in 1232 AH between the people of the Rass and Ibrahim Pasha, it has withstood a destination and showed great prowess, which made him cut palm trees and surrounded them for many months and surrounded the Rass Impervious wall. The main camp was adjacent to the city from the southern side, he drilled a mine tunnel about two kilo meters long. Starting from the camp site and ends with the southern Ras Al-Ras .It is was filled with a quantity of gunpowder salt with the intent to blow up the wall. Soldiers were digging the tunnel at night, when an old woman heard the sound of drilling, so she went to Sheikh Qarnas and told him about voice.after hearing identifying the voices him self, he knew that this sound is the sound were underground digging by the soldiers of Ibrahim Pasha. He devised a successful trick, he dug a tunnel in front of them and opened a small window overlooking the mine and brought a cat and held a priming in its tail and set it on fire. Then he brought the cat into the tunnel. The cat headed towards that hole, which led to the ignition of gunpowder and the eliminated many of Ibrahim Pasha's soldiers. The number of those killed in this siege from the Pasha army is estimated to be one thousand five hundred men according to Sheikh Saleh Al-Qarnas or 1600 men according to Othman bin Bishr mentioned in his book (The Title of Glory), while the Rass losses were about seventy Shahid. The grave are in a cemetery located in the middle of the present Rass, known as the cemetery (the Shahid).