Word: eritrea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...other hand, Mussolini's record in Libya has shown that he falls far short of being the "Protector of Islam." In less than a generation of Italian rule, the Moslems in Eritrea have decreased from over a million to 400,000. And Hitler's prestige is not raised by his contemptuous references to the Arabs in "Mein Kampf...
Therefore he rejected the British terms, retired with 7,000 Italians and 31,000 Ethiopians to the highest fortress he could find-Amba Alagi, a 10,000-foot crag near the Addis Abaha-Eritrea road-and waited...
Thus, at the age of five, died Benito Mussolini's infant colony. There was still probably a battle to be fought. Italian troops from Addis Ababa fled north to meet the Italian troops fleeing down from Eritrea. Presumably the two forces planned to join for one last stand...
With the fall of Cheren, the British hoped for no further major battle in Eritrea. They pressed on through the hills at once toward the capital, Asmara, as fast as sappers ahead of the armored-car spearhead could clear away land mines and landslides left by the Italians. Ahead of the sappers the R.A.F. continued its bombardment, destroying trucks and twisting bridges. Beyond Asmara lies Massaua, Eritrea's only good port, which the Royal Navy had tightly corked and hoped soon to possess...