Posted on 04/09/2020 3:46:27 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1868, on the eve of his rout at the hands of a British expeditionary force, the frustrated Emperor Tewodros II had hundreds of prisoners executed en masse.
Our setting is the 1868 British Expedition to Abyssinia, “one of the most expensive affairs of honour in history.” And it all got started from a bad experience with technical support.
Tewodros — generally known to the Europeans as Theodore — had risen from a humble station to the throne of Abyssinia, but by the 1860s held it but tenuously against various rival warlords. Tewodros lodged appeals for aid with a number of European powers, including the British, who evidently took the emperor’s letter for Queen Victoria and stuck it indefinitely in a file called “Pending”.
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I guess I should not be surprised by the existence of a website named ExecutedToday.com, or the fact that someone here dug it up.
Sad. Thanks for posting. Sad.
https://www.opride.com/2017/05/11/case-director-general-candidate-tedros-adhanom/
Wow.
Thank you, for posting this piece of information.
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