The Trucial States, also known as the Trucial Coast, or the Trucial Sheikhdoms, or Trucial Oman, was a group of tribal confederations in southeastern Arabia south of the Persian Gulf whose leaders had
British naval fleet attack Ras Al Khaimah on 13 November 1809
RAF at No. 44 Staging Post, Sharjah, Trucial States, c. 1945
1961 Trucial States stamps, denominated in Gulf rupees.
The Persian Gulf campaign of 1819 was a British punitive expedition, principally against the Arab maritime force of the Qawasim in the Persian Gulf, which embarked from Bombay, India in November 1819
Plan of the attack of Ras Ul Khyma by the force under Sir Willm. Gr. Keir K.M.T., between 3–9 December 1819
The town of Rus al Khyma, sketched by Charles Hamilton Smith