Abyssinian War (1935–6) Reference library
Richard A. Smith
The Oxford Companion to British History (2 ed.)
... War , 1935–6 . Conflict between Abyssinia and Italy. Mussolini used a border incident on 5 December 1934 at Walwal, on the Eritrean and Somali frontier, as a pretext for pursuing his aim of imperial expansion in north Africa. The Italians invaded Abyssinia on 3 October 1935 without declaring war and captured the capital Addis Ababa on 5 May 1936 . The League of Nations branded Italy the aggressor and imposed limited sanctions but to no avail. In 1941 the British evicted the Italians with the aid of Abyssinian nationalists. Richard A....
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A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (6 ed.)
...Abyssinian War ( 1935–6 ) The conquest of Ethiopia (formerly Abyssinia) by Italian forces was born out of Mussolini 's desire to strengthen his domestic position through the establishment of an Italian East African Empire. Mussolini also wanted to avenge Italy for its previous humiliating defeat by the Ethiopian forces at Adowa in 1896 during an earlier attempt to occupy the area. Following a border clash at the Abyssinian oasis of Walwal, Mussolini rejected all attempts by the League of Nations to mediate, and invaded Abyssinia on 2 October 1935 ....
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A Dictionary of British History (3 ed.)
... War , 1935–6 . Conflict between Abyssinia and Italy. Mussolini used a border incident in December 1934 at Walwal as a pretext for pursuing his aim of imperial expansion in north Africa. The Italians invaded Abyssinia on 3 October 1935 and captured the capital Addis Ababa on 5 May 1936 . The League of Nations branded Italy the aggressor and imposed limited sanctions to no...
Abyssinian War
Exploration Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...was on a considerably grander scale than the first, and was sponsored by the Colonial Office rather than the African Association. Salt's travels in the Horn of Africa in 1809–10 were also officially directed, in that case particularly toward establishing relations with the Abyssinian rulers, while Crawfurd's 1820s accounts of Java, Thailand, and China emerged from commercial investigations and diplomacy for the *East India Company . A slightly earlier work might, however, be seen as the consummation of these developments— Thomas Raffles 's History of...
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