Word: aduwa
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...persisted even though France grabbed Tunisia from under Italy's nose in 1881, even though the Ethiopians massacred an Italian Army at Aduwa in 1896. By purchase and painful conquest Italy mastered an area in Africa about twice the size of Pennsylvania, called it Eritrea. In 1911 Italy declared an unprovoked war against the crumbling Ottoman Empire, got Tripoli in the settlement and kept Rhodes and the Dodecanese Islands provisionally...
...Central Powers her conditions for entering the war on their side. All but one of the conditions were rejected, and Italy signed the Treaty of London on April 26, declared war on Austria May 24. World War I gave Italy another great defeat to place beside Custozza and Aduwa: Caporetto...
...East Africa, the British advances looked more like dress parade than war. Some of the Eritrean force swept down into Ethiopia and took Aduwa, scene of the famed Italian debacle in 1896. The South African detachment which had taken Italian Somaliland, had swept up across the Ethiopian savannas and had cracked Harar, now drove up the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad at the rate of 25 miles a day. There was a brief, sharp action at the Awash River. Then the British pressed on and took Addis Ababa without meeting any Italian resistance...
...forget that when the valiant Ethiopians made the Italians prisoners in the Battle of Aduwa [1896] they handed them over to the Emperor without doing them any harm, thus earning for Ethiopia honor and a good name...
...have taken unmanning for granted: 1) to supply eunuchs for the harem trade; 2) as punishment for criminals; 3) as an expression of triumph over a slain enemy. After emasculation, the natives often made trophies of the virilities. Contrary to the Negus' claim, there were numerous castrations at Aduwa. Says one authority: "In an attempt to minimize the savagery of the victorious army, it is claimed that only 30 white prisoners were castrated. The truth is that only 30 survived and returned to Rome; innumerable others were reckoned among those killed in action; a few . . . lived but to have...