Kammala jumlar da ke gaba: Hamoud ya zama sultan tare da goyon bayan jakadan Birtaniya, Sir Basil Cave, bayan mutuwar Sayyid Hamad bin Thuwaini. Kafin ya iya shiga fadar, wani wanda zai iya neman kujerar sarauta, Sayyid Khalid bin Barghash, ya kwace fadar kuma ya ayyana kansa a matsayin sultan. Biritaniya ta amsa washegari, 26 ga Agusta, 1896, ta hanyar ba da umarni ga Khalid da mabiyansa don kwashe fadar da karfe 9:00 na safe a ranar 27 ga Agusta. Lokacin da ya ƙi, jiragen ruwa na Royal Navy sun harbe fadar da sauran wurare masu mahimmanci a cikin birni, wanda ya sa Khalid da ƙungiyarsa suka gudu. A cewar "Guinness Book of World Records" sakamakon Anglo-Zanzibar War shi ne mafi girma
mafi guntu yaki a tarihi, kuma a wannan rana Hamoud ya iya dauka da lakabi na sultan, more bashi ga Birtaniya fiye da kullum.