 After the fall of the city of Ta'if to Ibn Saud in September 1924, King Hussein bin Ali fled from Mecca to Jeddah on 6 October 1924 on the advice of Hejazi notables and declared his son Ali bin Hussein the King of Hejaz.From Jeddah, Hussein was transported by the British to Aqaba by boat and later to Cyprus.The abdication only further emboldened Ibn Saud to march upon Mecca, entering the city of 5 December 1924.