POR QUE ETIÓPIA NUNCA FOI COLONIZADA

When the European powers decided to colonize Africa only two nations were not colonized, the first being Liberia an African country never colonized by Europeans has a very long history. curious. This is because it was founded in 1824 by freed slaves from the United States of America.

The Other nation is Ethiopia, which won battles against the invasion Italian territorial. The question is how did Ethiopia manage to do it? At the time Ethiopia, which was called Abyssinia, was not a great empire and the king of that empire was called Theodore ll who had taken the throne through a coup d'etat.

Theodore tried to do a deal with the British so that it could have modern weapons and fight some rebels and Expand your empire. The British denied it, so Theodore found ways to obtain weapons through missionaries and then he got into contradictions with Britons, the British they sent an expedition that led to the downfall of Theodore II. the British on the other hand left the territory thinking it would be expensive to administer, after the British had abandoned the territory this resulted in internal ethnic conflicts that led to the John Yohannes throne He expanded the Kingdom, began to dominate the small kingdoms to protect the center of the empire of European forces.

It's the result? it was a diverse country with several ethnicities. In 1869, the Italians subjugated the eastern part of the region, establishing a Colony in the region of present-day Eritrea.

And it started to expand outwards, in approximately 20 years they controlled a significant part of East Africa and how was taking place in the vicinity of the Ethiopian Empire that had existed in the region for over 600 years. From 1870 onwards, present-day Abyssinia Ethiopia came to be coveted by Italy, which then it sought to join the other European powers in the unbridled race for the partition of Africa. In 1887 fighting was taking place between the Italians and the local Ethiopians, that culminated in the Battle of Dogali in which an Italian column was ambushed and destroyed by Ethiopians after that, the Italians were determined to have theoretically a peaceful relationship with the Ethiopians.

In 1889 before he died, Yohannes transformed his nephew, Mengesha, in successor, claiming that he was actually her son. The majority of nobles did not accept, among them Menelique II On March 25, Menelique ll proclaimed himself the true negusa or nagast meaning King, after negotiations with other Ethiopian nobles. Menelique also expanded the Ethiopian empire However after consecrating himself King Menelique asked for support from Italy, including arms, but Italy asked for recognition in return.

of the zones that were dominated by them. On May 2 of the same year Ethiopia and Italy signed the 'Wuchale Treaty', which ceded the entire coast to the Italians, who named their colony of Eritrea. However, there were two versions of the Treaty, one written in Italian and the other written in Amharic “Ethiopian language”.

The treatise, in fact, offered a little more. . .

in the Amharic version, its article 17 said that the emperor, in that case the Menelique could do use of the Italian diplomatic services. In the Italian version it stated that he only could do diplomacy through Italy, that Ethiopia was an Italian protectorate, effectively turning Menelique into a subordinate of the King of Italy. Menelique soon he knew the difference, but chose not to act while consolidating his power, importing more weapons Europeans, including supposed allies.

In 1893, Malique declared that the treaty had no validity. The Italians responded by moving troops to the border and invading Ethiopia. The Italians marched to Adua.

For weeks, they waited for the Ethiopians to attack, but Menelique was experienced and waited so long until the camp was about to lift, because supplies were running low and troop morale was low. Thus, on the night of March 1, 1896, 18,000 Italians abandoned the fortifications and moved through the hills of Aduá, Expected to find 30,000 Ethiopians, without any military training, without war strategy, and without modern weapons, which would facilitate the victory of the Italians and that way they would have the total dominion of the territory. .

. . they were wrong!

however there were more 100,000 Ethiopians, 80% with modern weapons . It was a massacre for the Italians. Hours later, 7,000 of them would be dead, 1,500 wounded and 3,000 captured.

Menelique's generals insisted that they head for Eritrea, but Menelique knew that the Italians would have the resources to react if provoked. Today this battle is known as the Battle of Aduá News of the defeat caused a stir in Italy, with protests and the resignation of Prime Minister Francesco Crispi. Baratieri the Italian General he faced court martial but was acquitted.

On October 23, 1896, the Treaty of Addis Ababa ended the war and recognized Ethiopian sovereignty. However one of the reasons Ethiopia does not was colonized is the fact of having intelligent, patriotic and somehow thoughtful kings. aligned and their territorial expansion of the empire.

In other words, having 3 kings or competent leaders in government in sequence is extremely important for any nation and in few years the changes can be remarkable. It is worth remembering that some historians report that the weapons obtained by the Ethiopians were obtained from the Russians who Russia he supported Menelique's ambitions because both were Orthodox Christian countries. And some historians believe that Theodore II committed a suicide after a defeat in battle.

So guys basically there are these two versions of how Theodore II died as the Ethiopians got more weapons. there is something that really catches my attention, which is how Menelique acted, for those who have read the book the art of war that I already recommend. Sun Tzu's Art of War which is very book well.

There's a phrase that says the following if memory doesn't deceive me, Those who triumph they know when to fight and when to wait. If we went to see Menelique knew that there were two Treaties of Wuchale completely distinct but he knew how to wait, consolidate his power until the right time to fight and that's how he won the Italians. In other words, the Ethiopians didn't actually beg for the their freedom, they fought for their freedom and it seems that the Italians have problems with the Ethiopians until.

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