Capture of Mecca (1813)

Battle of Mecca
	Part of the Ottoman–Saudi War
	; View of Mecca
Date	January 1813
Location	Mecca, western Arabia
Result	Ottoman victory
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire	First Saudi State
Commanders and leaders
Mohammed Ali Pasha; Tusun Pasha	Faisal bin Saud AL-Kabeer
Strength
22,000[citation needed]	1,000[citation needed]
Casualties and losses
none.	none.

Ottoman return of Mecca 1813 (Turkish: Mekke'nin Osmanlıya Dönüşü) also known as the Battle of Mecca happened several days after the recapture of Jeddah during the Ottoman–Saudi War. Diriyah's army and its 1,000 men in Mecca surrendered to Muhammad Ali of Egypt and Tusun Pasha, who recaptured the city for the Ottoman Empire.^{[citation needed]}

References

Facey, William & Grant, Gllian: Saudi Arabia by the First Photographers . ISBN 0-905743-74-1
Captain G. S. Froster : 'A trip Across the Peninsula – Rehla Abr Al-Jazeera, (Arabic). Mombai – India, 1866.

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