Word: aduwa
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...return Haile Selassie offered to cede to Italy most of the southern province of Ogaden and in the north the captured Aduwa-Adigrat section of Tigre Province but not the Holy City of Aksum. All this was also provided in Deal...
...Army's highest rank of Marshal and into retirement was goat-bearded, rheumy-eyed but able and sagacious old General Emilio de Bono. Under this Original Fascist the flower of Italy's hottest-headed youthful volunteers have gone out to Africa, avenged the 19th Century "Shame of Aduwa" and occupied some 10,000 sq. mi. The combination of young hotheads in the van with a very old Fascist behind them has been either extremely odd or touched with genius. Enemies of the Dictator have accused him of sending first to fight in Africa mercurial youths whom...
...regiment of Italian Bersaglieri, cock feathers fluttering from their helmets. A thumping band blared Giovinezza while overhead buzzed 21 Caproni bombers led by Il Duce's ace son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano. Ras Gugsa, whose tribesmen had led the unopposed Italian advance all the way from Aduwa, 60 miles to the north last week, moved into his palace. By order of white bearded General Emilio de Bono he had been appointed the puppet Governor of Tigre Province for Italy. Italian regulars moved out to level camping ground on the outskirts of Makale...
...first time Ethiopian statesmen close to the Emperor discussed openly with correspondents this hypothesis: Suppose Emperor Haile Selassie should keep his rich native Province of Harrar but give up the Province of Ogaden in which the original Ualual Incident occurred, the fruitful Webbe Shibeli Valley and of course Aduwa, "if by this enlightened sacrifice His Majesty could bring a quick conclusion of bloodshed...
...North. Italy's troops had drawn up on a 60 mile A-A-A (Aksum-Aduwa-Adigrat) front. Between them and Makale, their next important objective, stood the 8,000 ft. mountain of Gual Azai. To protect the Italian forces leftward under General Santini from a flank attack, General Diamanti led 3,000 Blackshirts and an indefinite number of black-faced Askaris in a nine-mile drive round the mountain. General Alessandro Pirzio-Biroli commanding the centre moved his men forward at the same time to capture the rich Feres Mai Valley and a number of important wells. Nowhere...