In January a fleet white lieutenant general hurled his forces into Ethiopia. By April the capital had fallen, the Emperor had committed suicide. By June the last of the British troops had left Ethiopia, to the great satisfaction of their Sovereign, the late great Queen Victoria. The year: 1868.
The object of British Lieut. General Napier was to punish a bad Emperor for having tortured some Englishmen. Benito Mussolini began his road-building and colonizing invasion of Ethiopia last October. Three days later Aduwa fell, followed by the fall of the Holy City...
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