Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Right. After the fall of Rome, Alexander smashed the German right with a brilliant trick. Through the tired formations of the Allied Fifth Army he secretly slipped an entirely fresh unit-the 6th South African Armored Division (veterans of Ethiopia and East Africa). The maneuver was a stunning success. The exhausted German Fourteenth Army collapsed before the new well-organized strength...
Emperor Haile Selassie rocked the Coptic Christian Church to its 1800-year-old foundations. To Cairo and the Coptic pope, Patriarch Markarius III, the gentle Negus sent a rough message: the next Abuna, or archbishop, of Ethiopia must be an Ethiopian, not an Egyptian...
Ever since St. Athanasius consecrated Frumentius as the first Bishop of Ethiopia (340 A.D.), Egyptians have held top place in Ethiopia's hierarchy. The present Abuna is bearded, scholarly Cyril, who came from Cairo's St. Anthony Monastery. He crowned Haile Selassie in 1928, has spiritual rule over 4,000,000 Ethiopian Copts. At royal worship in Addis Ababa's octagonal Cathedral of St. George, the Emperor kisses the Egyptian's silk-draped silver cross. But the Abuna continually vexes the King of Kings and the proud Ethiopian court: he offends the country's growing...
...cutting the Haifa-Mosul oil line, he mixed Jewish and British patrols, beat the Arabs at their own game of ambush, won the title of "Lawrence of Judea" (which his cousin, who fought for the Arabs, might have resented). In 1941, in the British campaign against the Italians in Ethiopia, Wingate directed a strategy of bluff, propaganda and native revolt. With 1,000 Sudanese and 2,000 Ethiopians, he effectively snarled up some 40,000 Italians, won the title of "Lawrence of Ethiopia...
When Field Marshal Wavell wanted to harry the Japanese, he remembered Ethiopia, sent for Wingate, made him a Brigadier, gave him a free hand to become the Lawrence of Burma...