The Abyssinians By Banna Desta - (Darrell Bates)

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The Abyssinian Difficulty: The Emperor Theodorus and the Magdala Campaign 1867-68 (Darrell Bates) (1979) angielski

By energy, intelligence, and ruthlessness he mastered most of his rival chieftains and became 'the Elect of God, the Slave of Christ, the King of Kings and Emperor of all Abyssinia', claiming descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. He admitted European traders, and missionaries (but only to convert the pagans and Black Jews),and encouraged the introduction of techniques, from printing to cannon-casting, that began the modernization of Ethiopia. He made particular friends with the British consul, and in October 1862 he sent a cordial letter, proposing diplomatic relations, as from the ruler of one empire to another, to Queen Victoria. His name was Theodorus (Tewodros to modern Ethiopian scholars, Theodore to 19th-century Europeans),and when, a year later, he had still not had a reply from the Queen of England, he imprisoned the new British consul and clapped him in irons, and in due course he added about sixty Europeans and their dependants to his tally, holding them as hostages.
In recent years it has been a matter of only a few days before governments have decided how to rescue their nationals held hostage, and a matter of hours to snatch them away by air. But in the 1860s it took four years of devious and reluctant political and diplomatic manoeuvring, and then a full-scale expedition launched from India - with the latest in military technology such as breech-loading rifles, searchlights, a railway from the port of disembarkation, and official photographers - lasting several months, before the British army under General Napier after a 400-mile march through precipitous mountains defeated the Abyssinian forces in April 1868 in a battle outside the seemingly impregnable citadel of Magdala. Napier stormed the fortress, and released every one of the Europeans (whose number had gone up, as two of the missionaries' wives had had babies in captivity). The Emperor Theodorus shot himself with an inscribed pistol that Queen Victoria had earlier presented to him; and General Napier and his victorious but not imperialistic army marched away for good (and for the betterment of the British Museum's collections through the acquisition of invaluable Ethiopian works of art and literature as loot). The Emperor's 7-year-old son Alamayu was brought to England and educated as a ward of Queen Victoria at Rugby and Sandhurst, to die young, homesick no doubt for Abyssinia, and be buried in the Chapel Royal at Windsor
Castle.
Drawing largely on hitherto untapped sources (besides family papers made available some years ago by Napier's son, the Hon. Albert Napier, then still alive),in the Public Record Office, the India Office library, and the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle, Darrell Bates has produced an exact and unvarnished but continually entertaining and exciting account of a confrontation that was in some respects tragic, in others heroic, frequently hilarious, and wonderfully full of high Victorian panache and style.

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