User:Abdalluh3014/Battle of rakhima

Battle of rakhima
Part of the Kuwaiti–Rashidi war
Date 1901 Location Al-rakhmiya district (a district in the north-west of Kuwait) Result Kuwaiti victory
Belligerents
[[File:Flag of Kuwait (1915-1956).svg |20px]] Sheikhdom of Kuwait	Emirate of Jabal Shammar
Commanders and leaders
[[File:Flag of Kuwait (1915-1956).svg |20px]] Sheikhdom of Kuwait Mubarak I	Abd al-Aziz II

The Battle of rukhaima was a raid by Kuwaiti forces on the Shammar tribes of the ruler of hail in 1901 in the rukhaima region in northwestern Kuwait.

The cause of the battle

The Shammar tribes have changed on the Arabs residing on the northern borders of Kuwait and are trying to seize the convoys coming out of them and the Arabs residing north of the borders of Kuwait. The ruler of Kuwait, Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah, was angry and fed up with these aggressor tribes, so he marched an army from Kuwait led by his brother Sheikh Hammoud Al-Sabah, his son Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah and the bearer of Al-Bairaq (Ibrahim bin Abdullah Al-Muzain) and ordered them to attack one of the Shammar tribes belonging to Abdul Aziz Al-Rashid, so Mubarak Al-Sabah's Army attacked them and seized many of their money and thousands of sheep and camels, and the incident was severe on them.

References

[[Category:Conflicts in 1901]] [[Category:Battles involving Kuwait]] [[Category:1901 in Kuwait]]