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  2. Battle of Adwa - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Adwa (Amharic: የዐድዋ ጦርነት; Tigrinya: ውግእ ዓድዋ; Italian: battaglia di Adua, also spelled Adowa) was the climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War. The Ethiopian army managed to defeat the heavily outnumbered invading Italian and Eritrean force led by Oreste Baratieri on March 1, 1896, near the town ...

  3. First Italo-Ethiopian War - Wikipedia

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    Painting depicting the Battle of Adwa The decisive battle of the war was the Battle of Adwa on March 1, 1896, which took place in the mountainous country north of the actual town of Adwa (or Adowa).

  4. Military history of Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    Menelik II leading his army before the Battle of Adwa. The military history of Ethiopia dates back to the foundation of early Ethiopian Kingdoms in 980 BC.Ethiopia has been involved in many of the major conflicts in the horn of Africa, and was one of the few native African nations which remained independent during the Scramble for Africa, managing to create a modern army. 19th and 20th century ...

  5. Nikolay Leontiev - Wikipedia

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    Leontiev had arrived at Djibouti on 28 February 1896. Before leaving Djibouti on 4 March 1896, Leontiev had heard of the Ethiopian victory at the Battle of Adwa and arrived in Addis Ababa in May 1896. According to his diary, Emperor Menelik II then commissioned him to take a letter to the Tsar Nicholas II. He had also claimed that a group of ...

  6. Giuseppe Baudoin - Wikipedia

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    On April 26, 1895, Baudoin married Athalie Maria Hervey Brabazon on April 26, 1895. [4] He then travelled to Eritrea and he formed the 9th African Infantry Battalion on December 15, 1895, with volunteers from the 7th , 8th and 36th infantry regiments and left Naples and landed at Massawa on January 2, 1896.

  7. Army of the Ethiopian Empire - Wikipedia

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    In 1895, Nikolay Leontiev organized the delivery of 5,000,000 cartridges, 30,000 rifles, 5,000 sabers, and a few cannons from the Russians to the Ethiopian army. Leontiev later served as a military adviser at the Battle of Adwa and later organized the first modernized army battalion of the Ethiopian army in February 1899. [13] [14]

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  9. Battle of Adowa - Wikipedia

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