Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ethiopia," shrilled Haile Selassie, "will fight until the last soldier and the last inch! Let every man who is not wounded or sick take arms and enough food to last five days and march north to fight the invader...
...minister to leave the legation and go to the British legation. The American minister disregarded the order, which was issued solely to prevent such an eventuality, and "bravely" defended his post. Immediately, American newspapers took up the cry. Why must American nationals (long since warned to get out of Ethiopia) run to the British? And why wasn't the entire National Guard sent to surround the legation and prove that the United States had as great an interest in Lake Tana as Great Britain...
Italy's success in conquering Ethiopia has put the British in a very difficult position, making it almost impossible for them to get out of the mess gracefully. The sanctions have failed to accomplish the desired effect, and popular opinion in England is up in arms against the Government...
...walrus-mustached British General named Robert Cornells Napier landed on the coast of Eritrea with 32,000 men, six cannon and a herd of baggage elephants. Into Ethiopia they marched to punish Emperor Theodore for the torture and imprisonment of a group of British officers. Three months later the British column had fought its way some 400 miles inland and had defeated Theodore's tribesmen at Magdala. Emperor Theodore promptly blew his brains out with a revolver presented to him by Queen Victoria. By June 18, five months after the expedition had started, the last British soldier had left...
This week Italian troops were entering their eighth month of active warfare in Ethiopia. Addis Ababa was still 140 miles ahead of the nearest Italian column. Emperor Haile Selassie was neither killed nor captured. Crown Prince Asfa Wassan had returned to Addis Ababa to take over the Government under orders from his father. Remnants of the Imperial Guard drifting back to the Capital still had their rifles, bags of dried peas and the capacity to put up a fight. In the south things were different. The bloodiest battle of the entire War was raging last week around a collection...