Word: degiac
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protect the flank of Italy's main army of the north with its spearhead at Makale, they had gone where no white men had ever gone before, skirting the blazing Danakil Desert, then up over the bitter cold highlands facing the Derdega Mountains. One thing General Mariotti knew: Degiac Kassa Sebat was ahead of him with an indefinite number of well-armed Ethiopians and he would attack as soon as the Italian column got near enough. The gorge seemed a likely place, for a ridge ran straight across it about 200 yards ahead...
...Degiac Kassa and General Mariotti thought alike. Before the General was able to unlimber his camel guns, volley upon volley of rifle fire echoed from the cliffs. Skirmish lines went out, runners raced for munitions, support. Colonel Belli, the General's second-in-command, ran forward to help the mountain battery, got bullets in a hand and knee...
Zebit was ready for them. Twenty thousand loyal, fuzzy-headed, yelling soldiers under Minister of War Degiac Mulugheta smote the howling rebels hip and thigh, routed them, slew their leader, the Imperial Consort Ras Gugas Wali...
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