In addition to Omani relations with East Africa and with the Persian state, Oman formed in time Abusaidiin set of relations with European countries and especially with France and Britain in Imam Ahmed bin Saeed time.
The international conflict in that period, a struggle in order to obtain spheres of influence and privileges, and so we find the conflict, which has between Britain and France over Oman strategically located distinctive, and try both of them annexed to their areas of influence, and I've Imam Ahmed bin Saeed high-end to the aspirations of the colonial European and fee policy Foreign Oman based on the principle of neutrality and the Franco-British relationship was characterized by stability, but this stability subjected to some jerks, especially when the war broke out seven years (1756-1763m) between the two countries, in this period happened kind of turmoil in the Omani waters.
It is worth mentioning that Imam Ahmed bin Saeed was the first one who started the business to deal with France in Mauritius Island of the authority of the French and some other French colonies, where the Omani ships go loaded with sugar and return laden with fish salted coffee, and as a result of commercial developments between Amman and French colonies in the Indian Ocean in those period, Imam Ahmed bin Saeed expressed his desire to establish business that the French agency in the port of Muscat without charge.
At the British level. When I got Napoleon Bonaparte's expedition to Egypt and was aimed at the English in India, the British East India Company saw to conclude an agreement with the Sultan Bin Ahmed stated that the Sultan of Muscat to the English allow the establishment of a base in Bandar Abbas and the presence of garrison out.
In order to strengthen Britain for influence in Muscat, under the pretext of preventing the slave trade Britain concluded with Mr. Said treaty in 1802 in which he pledged to stop the slave trade, then trade treaty in 1839, with the result that the two treaties with Britain and France decided to get similar privileges.
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