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The battle of Adwa of March first of March, 1896 a great victory and pride for Africans at home and Diaspora. The victory assured that Ethiopia successfully resists European colonization.<\/p>\n
Italy the late comer to the scramble for Africa in the late 19th<\/sup> century \u00a0\u00a0was allocated to Ethiopia but just needed to take control. The Italians and the rest of the European powers present at the Berlin Conference 1880\u2019s wrongly assumed that Ethiopia was made up of rival tribes fighting one another and thought it would be a quick promenade for their 20,000 strong highly trained invasion forces. They never thought \u00a0what they call \u201ctribal back word savages” could be united raising a much larger patriotic people\u2019s army to defend their country and even to win an all out war.<\/p>\n [media id=492 width=520 height=440]<\/p>\n