Hamad bin Abdullah Al Sharqi

[1] He led Fujairah in a number of insurrections against Al Qasimi rule, presiding over a turbulent time when the emirate was practically independent but denied recognition of status as a Trucial State in its own right by the British.

[2] The settlement of a peace was placed in front of the Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah to arbitrate and, in 1881, Hamad bin Abdullah signed a document confirming him as a dependent of Sharjah.

The next month, the British Political Agent in Bahrain, Gaskin, travelled to Sharjah in the RIMS Lawrence and then on to Fujairah, holding two days of negotiations between the warring parties.

The situation onshore being increasingly threatening and both parties intractable, the attempt was abandoned and the British left them to it, with the sole proviso that they wouldn't break the Maritime Peace.

[7] In 1926, the strained relations between Fujairah and the Sharjah dependencies of Kalba and Khor Fakkan broke out into open warfare, despite Hamad bin Abdullah having married the daughter of the Al Qasimi wali of both towns.