Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Kufa kwaHamad bin Thuwaini musi wa25 Nyamavhuvhu 1896 kwakaona Khalid bin Bargash, mwanakomana wedangwe wesultan wechipiri, Barghash ibn Sa'id, achitora imba yamambo uye achizvizivisa semutongi mutsva. Ikoku kwakanga kuchipesana nezvido zvehurumende yeBritain, iyo yaifarira Hamoud bin Mohammed. Ikoku kwakatungamirira kukurwisana, kwakazonzi Hondo yeAnglo-Zanzibar
, mangwanani aAugust 27, apo ngarava dzeRoyal Navy dzakaparadza Beit al Hukum Palace, dzichipa Khalid awa imwe yekupedzisira kuti abve. Akaramba, uye na9 mangwanani ngarava dzakavamba kupfura. Mauto aKhalid akapindura pfuti uye iye akatizira kumuzinda wenyika yeGermany. Kumiswa kwokurwa kwakaziviswa maminitsi 45 pashure pokunge chiito chacho chatanga, kuchipa kubhomba musoro weThe Shortest War in History. Hamoud akaziviswa kuva mutongi mutsva uye rugare rwakadzorerwa zvakare. Achibvuma zvaidiwa neBritain, muna 1897 akagumisa basa reZanzibar senzvimbo yaitengeswa varanda vekumabvazuva kwemazana emakore nokurambidza uranda uye kusunungura varanda, achibhadhara varidzi vavo. Mwanakomana waHamoud uye mugari wenhaka, Ali, akadzidza muBritain.