British Expedition to Abyssinia

Post by DannPuglo » Thu, Aug 08, 2019, 5:28 PM UTC

tamizhar wrote: post #19

aruggirello wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TIL: Queen Victoria truly was a Lady (not unlike the obviously idealized character of the BBC movie - IIRC it's called hagiography), and what could've otherwise been a massacre actually turned into a remarkable war expedition against the Emperor of Ethiopia Tewodros, who apparently was a dick. As a side note, the last of his successors (though fortunately not his descendant) claiming to be nothing less than King Solo…

> TIL: Queen Victoria truly was a Lady Victors get to write history and portray themselves as they desired. Everybody else gets to be the bad guy.

Post by mhh__ » Thu, Aug 08, 2019, 5:48 PM UTC

throw0101a wrote: post #13

Apropos of nothing: the only other time I recall seeing the word "Abyssinia" is in the song "Re:Definition" by Mos Def & Talib Kweli: Sinking they ship, like Moby Dick to Ahab Son I'm way past the minimum, entering millennium My raps will hold a gat to your back like Palestinians Ancient Abyssinia, sure to hold the Gideon Official b-boy gentlemen, long term, never the interim Born inside the winter, when? Day after D…

Post by sorokod » Thu, Aug 08, 2019, 6:36 PM UTC

DannPuglo wrote: post #22

sorokod wrote: post #15

700 dead 1,400 wounded on Ethiopian side, 2 dead for the British. And all because: Theodore, imprisoned several missionaries and two representatives of the British government in an attempt to get the attention of the British government, which had decided against his requests for military assistance The good old days.

"... while the native hostages had their hands and feet amputated before being thrown over the edge of the precipice surrounding the plateau." Good old days when governments weren't afraid to take horrible leaders head on.