Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Mutuwar Hamad bin Thuwaini a ranar 25 ga Agusta 1896 ya ga Khalid bin Bargash, ɗan fari na sultan na biyu, Barghash ibn Sa'id, ya karɓi fadar kuma ya ayyana kansa a matsayin sabon mai mulki. Wannan ya saba wa burin gwamnatin Burtaniya, wanda ya fifita Hamoud bin Mohammed. Wannan ya kai ga gwagwarmaya, daga baya aka kira Anglo-Zanzibar War
, a safiyar ranar 27 ga watan Agusta, lokacin da jiragen ruwa na Royal Navy suka lalata fadar Beit al Hukum, bayan sun ba Khalid wa'adin sa'a daya ya tafi. Ya ƙi, kuma a karfe 9 na safe jiragen ruwa suka bude wuta. Sojojin Khalid sun mayar da wuta kuma ya gudu zuwa ofishin jakadancin Jamus. An ayyana tsagaita wuta mintuna 45 bayan fara aikin, yana ba da bombardment taken The Shortest War in History. An ayyana Hamoud a matsayin sabon mai mulki kuma an sake dawo da zaman lafiya. Da yake yarda da bukatun Burtaniya, ya kawo karshen matsayin Zanzibar a matsayin cibiyar cinikin bayi na gabas na tsawon ƙarni ta hanyar hana bautar da 'yantar da bayi, yana biyan masu mallakar su. Dan Hamoud kuma magajinsa, Ali, ya yi karatu a Burtaniya.