Daoud Basha was the first to hold the office of mutasarrif (governor) in the newly created, semi-autonomous Ottoman administrative sub-division of Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate in the aftermath of the 1860 civil conflict in Mount Lebanon and Damascus. During this time Youssef Beyk  Karam had gained notoriety and became a prominent leader defending the Christians of Mont Lebanon from the North to Keserwen. In 1865 Daoud Basha sent an Ottoman battalion headed by a French officer to end the rule of Youssef Beyk Karam. 
In Bnachi, west and beneath the village of Ehden, the men of Karam waited, held a guet-apens and decimated the Ottoman battalion.
Yammine in his naive style depicts in 1936 the only pictural record of the legendary Battle of Bnachi. (This piece was made in 1936)