{"id":78472,"date":"2025-12-18T12:24:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=78472"},"modified":"2025-12-20T13:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T08:01:07","slug":"battle-of-adwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/battle-of-adwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of Adwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Battle of Adwa Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian Prime Minister recently laid a wreath at the Adwa Victory Monument in Addis Ababa, paying tribute to Ethiopia\u2019s historic victory in the 1896 Battle of Adwa.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Battle of Adwa<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was <\/span><b>fought by the Ethiopian Empire,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which was <\/span><b>then known as Abyssinia, and Italy <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on <\/span><b>March 1, 1896, near Adwa, Ethiopia,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as the<\/span><b> concluding battle <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the <\/span><b>First Italo-Ethiopian War (1895\u20131896).<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The conflict <\/span><b>stemmed from Italy&#8217;s ambitions to establish an empire in Africa, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which was part of the broader &#8220;scramble for Africa&#8221; among European powers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This battle saw the <\/span><b>Ethiopian Empire, led by Emperor Menelik II, successfully defeat <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">an invading <\/span><b>Italian force.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ethiopian army, numbering around 100,000, faced off against approximately 17,000 Italian troops, resulting in a<\/span><b> decisive victory for the Ethiopians<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>securing their sovereignty.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The victory had further significance for being the<\/span><b> first crushing defeat of a European power by African forces during the colonial era.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Ethiopian victory secured independence until Italian dictator Benito Mussolini<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> again <\/span><b>attempted to conquer the nation <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">when he invaded it in <\/span><b>1935<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>initiating <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">what would be known as the <\/span><b>Second Italo-Ethiopian War.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Ethiopia initially resisted the Italians alone <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">except with the help of anti-fascist volunteers from the United States and other nations.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">By 1940,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> however, <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">when Italy declared war on Great Britain,<\/b> <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">its forces joined the Ethiopians in forcing them out of Ethiopia in 1941.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/en\/pm-modi-lays-wreath-at-adwa-victory-monument-in-ethiopia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DDN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battle of Adwa was fought by the Ethiopian Empire, which was then known as Abyssinia, and Italy on March 1, 1896. 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