Khalid's Wahhabi subjects soon come to resent…
1841 CE
Khalid's Wahhabi subjects soon come to resent his subservience to his Egyptian and Ottoman masters.
In 1841, his cousin, 'Abd Allah ibn Thunayan, rebels, captures Riyadh by a bold coup, and expels its garrison.
Khalid, in Al-Hasa at the time, flees by ship to Jiddah.