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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. Ethiopian army, led by Ras Makonen Wolde Mikael , managed to defeat the heavily outnumbered invading Italian and Eritrean force led by Oreste Baratieri ...
The Battle of Adwalton Moor occurred on 30 June 1643 at Adwalton, West Yorkshire, during the First English Civil War. In the battle, the Royalists loyal to King Charles led by the Earl of Newcastle soundly defeated the Parliamentarians commanded by Lord Fairfax .
Adwa (Tigrinya: ዓድዋ; Amharic: ዐድዋ; also spelled Adowa or Aduwa) is a town and separate woreda in Tigray Region, Ethiopia.It is best known as the community closest to the site of the 1896 Battle of Adwa, in which Ethiopian soldiers defeated Italian troops, thus being one of the few African nations to thwart European colonialism.
The outcome of this battle ensured Ethiopia’s independence, making it the only African country never to be colonized. 124 years ago, Ethiopian men and women defeated the Italian army in the ...
The Hewett Treaty, also called the Treaty of Adwa, was an agreement between Britain, Egypt [a] and Ethiopia signed at Adwa on 3 June 1884. The treaty ended a long-simmering conflict between Egypt and Ethiopia, but indirectly started a new conflict between Ethiopia and Italy. It had seven articles. [1]
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The English Civil War was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England [b] from 1642 to 1651. Part of the wider 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms , the struggle consisted of the First English Civil War and the Second English Civil War .
The English Civil War. Hereford: Robert Ditchfield Ltd. ISBN 0904305112. Grainge, William (1854). The battles and battle fields of Yorkshire; from the earliest times to the end of the great civil war. York: Hunton. OCLC 1181166254. Hopper, A. J. (1999). The extent of support for Parliament in Yorkshire during the early stages of the first civil ...