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| Background History of The Victory of Battle of Adwa |
. "the Italians have suffered a
disaster greater than has ever
occurred in modern times to white
men in Africa."
Spectator Newspaper
disaster greater than has ever
occurred in modern times to white
men in Africa."
Spectator Newspaper
The Treaty of Wachale
In 1889, Italy connived to trick Emperor
Menelik into signing a Treaty that would
have made Ethiopia an Italian
Protectorate: according to the Amharic
translation of the Treaty, the Emperor
had only agreed to make Italy a
Protectorate "if the Emperor chooses."
Emperor Menelik argued, "I would never
give any nation power over Ethiopia;" he
then ordered Italy to publicly renounce
its claim over Ethiopia and to return to
previously agreed boarders in the 1889
Treaty, but Italy refused. Such were the
events that lead to the Battle of Adwa
six years later.
In 1889, Italy connived to trick Emperor
Menelik into signing a Treaty that would
have made Ethiopia an Italian
Protectorate: according to the Amharic
translation of the Treaty, the Emperor
had only agreed to make Italy a
Protectorate "if the Emperor chooses."
Emperor Menelik argued, "I would never
give any nation power over Ethiopia;" he
then ordered Italy to publicly renounce
its claim over Ethiopia and to return to
previously agreed boarders in the 1889
Treaty, but Italy refused. Such were the
events that lead to the Battle of Adwa
six years later.
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| The Battle of ADWA March 1, 1896 |
| As early as 1896, Ethiopia remained the last free nation on continental Africa that had never been colonized by Europeans. When Ethiopia won the Battle of Adwa on March 1, 1896, Ethiopia became the First African nation to ever win a major military victory over a powerful European colonizer... Colonial Italy under-estimated Ethiopian military genesis and strategic skill, arrogantly believing that Black Ethiopioans would never win a major battle over the "superior" European race... but Ethiopia was victorious and such a victory for Black Africa during the time of European expansionism, global colonization and the redistribution of the world's wealth encouraged the African Diaspora's dreams of liberation from brutal oppressive colonizers. Blacks in America and the Caribbean thus perceived the Ethiopian Victory at Adwa as a fulfillment of Bible prophecy. |
