![]() ![]() More importantly, God has never let me down and I am confident that he will let me be victorious again.” It is also through the grace of God that I am ruling. “Up until now, through the grace of God, who permitted me to live by destroying my enemies and expanding the territorial boundaries of our country. He reminded Ethiopians that the enemy intends to take away the core values and traditions cherished by the people. Menelik appealed to the love of family, religion, and country. Menelik’s declaration is an important literary document in the context of preparation, the will to fight and become victorious at the Battle of Adwa. The war declaration was widely heeded and welcomed throughout the country, a clear affirmation of his popularity. The Ethiopian army’s victory checked Italy’s attempt to build an empire in Africa. The victory had major significance for being the first crushing defeat of a European power by African forces during the colonial era. The victory of Adwa took place on March 1, 1896, at Adwa, in north-central Ethiopia, between the Ethiopian army of Emperor Menelik II and Italian forces. Security forces stated that the victory day was celebrated peacefully with no security incident. Tuesday’s celebration commenced in the attendance of Ethiopian President Sahle-Work Zewde, the Minister for Culture and Tourism, Hirut Kassahun, senior government officials and members of the Ancient Ethiopian Patriots’ Association, and thousands of city residents who gathered around a bronze statue of Emperor Menelik II on horseback. The recovery from that seemed like it would be a bit more speedy on Tuesday when hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians were seen in cultural clothes and T-shirts with prints commemorating the Adwa Victory. The unrest in the north had left the country slightly divided. The nation has gone through an unfortunate series of events the previous year, with the misfortune trickling into 2013EC. Menelik II successfully pitted Italy against its European rivals while stockpiling advanced weapons to defend his empire against the Italians and British.There is an unusually tense atmosphere at Menelik Square. Italy sought to improve its position in Africa by conquering Ethiopia and joining it with its two territories. Two of its recently obtained African territories, Italian Eritrea and Italian Somaliland, bordered Ethiopia on the Horn of Africa. ![]() ![]() The newly unified Kingdom of Italy was a relative newcomer to the imperialist scramble for Africa. Only Ethiopia, then still commonly known as Abyssinia and the Republic of Liberia still maintained their independence (Liberia being a settler nation supported by the United States). Though not the first African nation to resist European conquest during the scramble for Africa, Ethiopia became a pre-eminent symbol of the pan-African movement and international opposition to colonialism.īy the end of the 19th century, European powers had carved up almost all of Africa after the Berlin Conference. The decisive victory thwarted the Kingdom of Italy’s campaign to expand its colonial empire in the Horn of Africa and secured the Ethiopian Empire’s sovereignty for another forty years. Led by Emperor Menelik II, Ethiopian forces defeated an invading Italian force on Sunday 1 March 1896, near the town of Adwa in Tigray. The Battle of Adwa was the climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War. ![]()
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