Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Hamoud ya zama sultan tare da goyon bayan masarautar 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 yaƙin Anglo-Zanzibar shi ne yaƙi mafi guntu a tarihi
, kuma a wannan rana Hamoud ya sami damar ɗaukar taken sultan, ya fi bin Burtaniya bashi fiye da kowane lokaci.