 In 1857 , the Beirut @-@ based governor of Sidon Eyalet agreed to Shamdin 's request to eliminate Aqil , who , to the consternation of the Ottoman authorities , was ruling the Galilee autonomously by that time . Shamdin , who sought vengeance against Aqil for terminating his service in Galilee , had complained to the Sidon governor that Aqil was committing treachery by collaborating with the Bedouin tribes against Ottoman authority . The Ottomans , whose dependence on Aqil had decreased with the end of the Crimean War in 1856 which had sapped Ottoman military forces from the area , found Shamdin 's request a convenient way to end Aqil 's growing autonomy . When Aqil visited Beirut to pay his respects to the governor of Sidon , he traveled with " the air of a sultan " , according to the American missionary Henry H. Jessup , bringing with him a large and heavily armed Bedouin entourage . 
