text:  Won by the emissaries of the Porte by the promise of the rich pashalic of Aleppo he suddenly assailed the troops of his father-in-law and seizing his person cut off his head and sent it with those of his principal followers to Constantinople--an act of perfidious ingratitude which even among the frequent breaches of faith staining the Ottoman annals has earned for its perpetrator the sobriquet of _Khain_ or the traitor _par excellence_