He was based in Al Zubarah on the Qatari Peninsula, an enclave and city state his father built after his departure from Kuwait.
As for his former opponent, Nasir ibn Madhkur, who had blockaded Al Zubarah the previous year, he allowed him to sail back to Bushire in Persia without any harm.
Sheikh Ahmed used to spend the winter in Zubarah, but the spring and summer seasons in Bahrain.
Though the former hunting ground is currently an affluent and popular residential neighborhood in Bahrain's Southern Governorate, it still carries Sheikh Ahmed's name.
At the time, the Wahhabi movement was slowly gaining momentum in Nejd or Central Arabia and Sheikh Ahmed was vigilant to protect his territories from foreign control.