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But the disastrous defeat by the Abyssinians at Adowa, in 1896, gave pause to the plans of such statesmen. Spain also suffered disaster in this period, first through the outbreak of revolt in Cuba, and then through the loss of the remnant of her once splendid colonial empire in consequence of the war with the United States.
The three principal provinces are Amhara, Tigre, and Shoa; the first being in the centre, with Tigre in the north, and Shoa in the south. Gondar is the capital of Amhara, Adowa is the main town of Tigre, and Amkobar is the most important place in Shoa. The prince, or governor, of each province, is known as "Ras," a term we often find in reference to Abyssinian matters.
In this year also the defeat of the Italians at Adowa, and the pressure of the troops of the Kalifa upon Kassala, held by the Italians for the English, did not permit longer delay. A great preparatory work had been done in the ten years previous. A new army had been created. The advance began in March, under the leadership of Sir Herbert Kitchener.
Why, we're friends with Italy we've always stuck up for Italy! When I think what he's writing and what a row it'll make I declare I'm ashamed to look one's Italian friends in the face! And just now, too, when they're so down on their luck. For it was the year of the Abyssinian disasters; and the carnage of Adowa was not yet two months old. Lucy's expression showed her sympathy. 'What makes him
How strange that it should have happened just now! It's a score that your Italy must settle mine washes her hands of it! and he explained that what she had heard were the cries of a poor hysterical woman, a small farmer's wife, who had lost both her sons in the Abyssinian war, in the frightful retreat of Adowa, and had never been in her right mind since the news arrived.
Gobaze, however, shortly afterwards heard that in Tigre, Dejatch Kassa, who for some months had abandoned his cause, had made himself very powerful, and marched upon Adowa. Supplies also began to run short in his camp, whilst Mastiate being in her own country, could draw them with all facility; he therefore retraced his steps towards Yedjow.
The disaster inflicted upon an Italian army at Adowa in 1894 by the Abyssinians a backward African people scarcely known except for the ease with which a British expedition had chastised them not thirty years before was perhaps the first of these events to awaken observant Indians to the fact that European arms were not necessarily invincible.
And Lilla heard the sigh: "Don't go. Don't smile at my intuition " Later, after seeming to listen intently, Aunt Althea cried: "What are they calling? All massacred at Adowa!" She uttered a moan, "I knew it!" To the doctor's surprise she lived through the following day. By evening everybody had become hopeful of her recovery.
In March, 1867, Theodore started for Kourata, the third town in importance in Abyssinia, and the greatest commercial centre after Gondar and Adowa.
The ever-increasing progress of Egypt during the next ten years, together with the accounts received from escaped prisoners of the reign of terror and inhumanity which obtained in the Sudan, brought the question of the reconquest of the lost provinces once more into prominence. The Italians had met with a fearful disaster in fighting against the Abyssinians at the battle of Adowa on March 1,1896.
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