Ibrahim Bey Mervi
The fury of the Bokhariot tyrant knew no bounds, nor
is it difficult to understand that his thirst for revenge would prompt him to
make extraordinary armaments. In addition to his ordinary army, consisting of 30,000
horsemen and 1,000 Serbaz, he took into his pay 10,000 Turkomans of the Tekke
and Salor tribes, and hurrying with forced marches towards Khokand, he took
Mehemmed Ali so by surprise that he was even obliged to fly from his own
capital, but, overtaken and made prisoner near Mergolan, he was, with his
brother and two sons, executed ten days afterwards in his own capital. After
him most of his immediate partisans fell by the hands of the executioners, and
their property was confiscated. The Emir returned to Bokhara laden with booty,
having first left Ibrahim Bi, a Mervi by birth, with a garrison of 2,000
soldiers in the conquered city.
Arminius Vambéry, Travels in Central Asia; being the account of a
journey from Teheran across the Turkoman Desert on the eastern shore of the
Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand performed in the year 1863. — London:
John Murray, 1864. Pp. 390—391.
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