3-053-607 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Hota, the capital of Lahej, near Aden, 1873. 'The British military station at Aden, in the south-western corner of the Arabian peninsula, near the...entrance to the Red Sea, has lately been disturbed by a threatened conflict between the forces of the Turkish Empire in Arabia and the native Sultan of Lahej, a district adjacent to Aden and under the virtual protection of Great Britain...General Schneider sent a force to Lahej...under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel J. R. Mackenzie, of the 105th. They marched to Hota, a distance of twenty-six miles...In the mean time our Foreign Office, learning by telegraph what had been done, addressed a remonstrance to the Turkish Government at Constantinople, and the result was that the Turkish troops were ordered to be withdrawn from Lahej; the rebel brothers of the Arab Sultan were given up to him, and the fort is to be demolished. We are indebted to Lieutenant-Colonel Stanley Edwardes, commanding the 2nd Bombay Native Infantry, for two sketches of the town and fort of Hota, one of which is shown in our Engraving. The palace of the Sultan of Lahej appears to the left hand, and the fort which was held by the Turks for his rebel brothers is on the right hand, seen in the distance'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.