Three chapters telling the events From Birth to Reconquest Birth and Upbringing 1876 — 1891 In the embrace of Riyadh, a prince was raised on horsemanship and love of the land The Departure from Riyadh 1891 — 1901 A decade of exile, between the desert and Kuwait, tempering the prince's resolve The Reconquest of Riyadh 15 January 1902 One night, forty horsemen, and a dawn that rewrote the peninsula