"First Italo-Abyssinian War: Battle of Adowa" Topic
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Tango01 | 13 Dec 2019 9:47 p.m. PST |
"Of all the African powers, only the ancient kingdom of Ethiopia remained completely free from European domination by the end of the 19th century. This was no accident of history; Ethiopia secured its sovereignty by inflicting a decisive and humiliating defeat upon the Italian invaders at Adowa (or Adwa) on March 1, 1896. The battle at Adowa was, at the time, the greatest defeat inflicted upon a European army by an African army since the time of Hannibal, and its consequences were felt well into the 20th century. As an example of colonial warfare on an epic scale, it cannot be surpassed. As an example of the twin follies of arrogance and underestimation of one's enemies, it should never be forgotten…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
chicklewis | 14 Dec 2019 2:27 a.m. PST |
" – – Bibles in the ancient language of Geez, the only written language native to Africa." Hmmm, perhaps someone should inform the writers of Egyptian Hieroglyphs. I've visited the Adowa battlefield, and it truly is a horrible place to try to move across country. Chick |
Tango01 | 14 Dec 2019 11:40 a.m. PST |
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Tango01 | 04 Jul 2021 9:56 p.m. PST |
THE ETHIOPIAN ARMY AT ADOWA link
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paperbattles | 05 Jul 2021 3:33 a.m. PST |
We call it Battaglia di Adua and, sorry Tango, it was not humiliating.. we lost a battle against 100.000 men whose 80.000 with rifles and guns… We defended like lions and we revenged that in 1936.. a famous song of the epoch say "Adua sei vendicata sei riportata a noi, Adua sei conquistata, risorgono gli eroi" it means Adua, you are avenged, you are back to us, Adua you are conquered the heros are resurrected"… the English text says it was the first deafeat of an Eurpean country.. well they forgot about Isandlawana in 1879… but this is typical for British historical writers.. by the way at the end we, Italians, after 40 years, won! Risorgono gli Eroi! |
paperbattles | 05 Jul 2021 4:12 a.m. PST |
"The types used by the Ethiopians included the elderly British 1866/67 Snider – an 1856 Enfield muzzle-loader converted into a single-shot breechloader. Used on the British Magdala expedition of 1867-68 against the Emperor Tewodros II, it had a massive 14.6mm calibre and a hinged breech action. However, the Ethiopians also had considerable numbers of the superior 1871 Martini-Henry – the classic British single-shot, lever-action, falling-block weapon of the colonial wars, firing 11.43mm bullets. The French 1866 Chassepot was another second-generation breechloader, a bolt-action, single-shot weapon taking 11mm paper and card cartridges; but again, the Ethiopians also had larger numbers of more modern 1871 Le Gras rifles, in which the Chassepot's paper cartridges were replaced with 11mm brass rounds. Menelik's warriors even had some 1886 Lebel 8mm bolt-action magazine rifles; with eight cartridges in the tubular magazine below the barrel, one in the cradle behind the chamber and one `up the spout', these took ten rounds. The Lebel's smaller-bore, smokeless-powder ammunition was the most advanced in the world (all the other types took black-powder rounds, which produced a giveaway cloud of white smoke and fouled the chamber fairly quickly with continuous firing)." So it gives a total different vision
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Tango01 | 05 Jul 2021 4:20 p.m. PST |
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paperbattles | 07 Jul 2021 5:26 a.m. PST |
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