The Maronite leader Bashir Shihab II surrenders to the Ottoman Empire and later is sent to Malta in exile.

Bashir Shihab II was a Lebanese emir who ruled the Emirate of Mount Lebanon between 1788 –1840. Born to a branch of the Shihab family which had converted from Sunni Islam, the religion of previous Shihabi emirs, he was the only Maronite ruler of the Mount Lebanon Emirate.