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	Battle of Maychew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Maychew was the last major battle of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, consisting of a failed counter-attack by Haile Selassie's forces against the Italian invaders.
		It was fought near Maychew, Ethiopia in the modern region of Tigray.
		On March 31, 1936, a proposed counter-attack using 40,000 of Selassie's best and last troops against the Italians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Maychew (113 words)

	Ethiopia - HISTORY
		Yohannis IV battled to keep Ethiopia free from foreign domination and to retard the growing power of the Shewan king, Menelik.
		The second of these, Susenyos (reigned 1607- 32), after a particularly fierce battle between adherents of the two faiths, abdicated in 1632 in favor of his son, Fasiladas (reigned 1632-67), to spare the country further bloodshed.
		The campaign in the north ended in February and March of 1941 with the Battle of Keren and the defeat of Italian troops in Eritrea.
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	Ethiopian History 1857 - 1973
		In the battle of Matema on march 1889 he defeated the Egypt’s but lost last his live.
		Tafari was the son of Ras Makonen, the hero of the Battle of Adwa.
		In 1930 the husband of the Empress died in a civil battle and two days later she herself expired of heartbreak.
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	Timeline of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		January 23: The Battle of Tembien, Abyssinian forces take 8,000 casualties compared to Italy's 1,100.
		March 21: Selassie protests to the League again, bringing forth Italian atrocities such as chemical weapons, destruction of ambulances and the massacre of civilians.
		March 31: The Battle of Maychew, an attempted Abyssinian counter-attack and the last major battle of the war fails.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timeline_of_the_Second_Italo-Abyssinian_War (875 words)

	Ethiopian Treasures - Emperor Haile Selassie - The Ethiopian Revolution
		The Ethiopian army initially claimed a victory at the Battle of Tembien, however this victory was not sustained and the Italian army overcame them.
		The Italian army used mustard gas after the battle of Tembien to curb the Ethiopian advances and the Ethiopian army retreated to Maychew.
		The Battle of Maychew was the final resistance to the Italian occupation.
	www.ethiopiantreasures.toucansurf.com /pages/selassie.htm (1071 words)

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		He also wanted revenge for what had occurred at the 1896 Battle of Adowa, where thousands of Italian lives were taken by Ethiopian forces.
		The Ethiopians had “sufficient modern arms to thwart assaults on the ground to inflict heavy losses.” One of the major downfalls of the battles for the Ethiopians was the death of Gerazmach Afework on November 5.
		The Italian invasion of Ethiopia was almost a hopeless battle on behalf of the Ethiopians.
	reports.owns1.com /ethopia.doc (1936 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 17 Jun 2003 (pt 1)
		Battle), when a Minister at the Foreign Office, said in a Commons debate that he wanted to continue to meet with Christian Solidarity Worldwide, as it had good contacts and valuable information.
		In Maychew, violent demonstrations led to the burning of all Christian churches.
		If this is a battle for the soul of Africa, it is definitely a bloody one.
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	Encyclopedia: Second Italo-Abyssinian War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years).
		This was a short lived state, however, as Abyssinia was liberated from Italian control in the subsequent East African Campaign.
		The East African Campaign refers to the battles fought between British Empire and Commonwealth forces and Italy in Italian East Africa during World War II.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Second-Italo_Abyssinian-War (2134 words)

	Amha Selassie I,Emperor-in-Exile (Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen)
		However, with the defeat of the Imperial forces at Maychew in southern Tigrai, the Raya and Azebo Oromos of Wollo rose up and began to attack the retreating Imperial Army as the Italians marched southward.
		Emperor Haile Selassie, who was retreating from the battle at Maychew was attacked several times during his detour to Lalibella where he went to pray in the face of his impending defeat.
		Once the Emperor arrived in Addis Ababa, the decision to go into exile was made, and Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen, Crown Princess Wollete Israel, their daughter, and the rest of the Imperial family, boarded a train with the Emperor and Empress and fled to Djibouti.
	www.angelfire.com /ny/ethiocrown/amha.html (4717 words)

	Crosswalk.com - Religion Today Summaries, February 27, 2003
		Meles and Desalegn were arrested after a mob of Orthodox Church extremists staged a two-day rampage in April against Maychew's five evangelical churches.
		According to Maychew evangelicals, police have used the two Protestants as scapegoats in an attempt to exonerate an off-duty policeman accused of firing the fatal bullet from the police chief's gun, Compass reported.
		Last week, Pentecostal church sources said the parents of the Orthodox victim had gone to police, stating that they knew the two leaders were innocent and that it was the arrested policeman who was responsible for their son's death.
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	Timeline of the Second Italo Abyssinian War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		January 23 : The Battle of Tembien, Abyssinianforces take 8,000 casualties compared to Italy's 1,100.
		March 21 : Selassie protests to the League again, bringing forth Italianatrocities such as chemical weapons, destruction of ambulances and the massacre of civilians.
		March 31 : The Battle of Maychew, an attempted Abyssinian counter-attack and the last major battle of the warfails.
	www.therfcc.org /timeline-of-the-second-italo-abyssinian-war-42481.html (895 words)

	OneWorld Magazine - Haile Sellassie and Mussolini
		From 10 February, the increasing instability stimulated a persistent Italian offensive, which used air power and poison gas to separate, flank, and destroy the Ethiopian armies one by one.
		Within a four-week period Badoglio's forces conquered Ras Mulugeta at Amba Aradam, demolished Ras Kassa's army at a second battle in Temben, and defeated Ras Imru in Shire.
		The terrain there was all wrong for an attack, but a victory would vindicate the emperor, and a defeat might permit a soldier's death converting him from monarch to martyr.
	www.oneworldmagazine.org /focus/etiopia/musso4.html (1065 words)

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		Ethiopia is one of only two African countries that were never colonized (and the other one, Liberia, shouldn't really count since it was formed by freed slaves returning from the US during the diaspora...hence technically Ethiopia is literally the only African nation that was never colonized).
		Ethiopia literally destroyed the Italian armies at the battle of Aduwa in 1896, and Italy (under Mussolini this time) invaded but was kicked out in 1941.
		As for the battle of Adawa in the late 1800s, that battle had a number of interesting ramifications.
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		The plaintiffs, Irv Rubin and Roberto Alejandro Gandara, won their case in a Los Angeles inferior court battle that ruled the use of sectarian prayers was indeed a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
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	soleil
		In the confrontation of swords, the shock of battle, the clash of steel blades.
		They were awaiting orders for battles that were to be waged during the night.
		The cry of combat and of battle, the cry for the triumph of Tigray."
	www.bu.edu /english/levine/soleil.htm (20874 words)

	Christian Persecution Today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Henry and Marie Mesarosh have won their battle against the city of Cleveland, Tennessee, over the right to distribute religious literature by placing it on cars.
		The GMB are possibly most famous for their capture of Fort Ticonderoga, a British outpost, where they confiscated cannon and other arms critical to the revolutionary cause.
		Pray that weapons of mass destruction, if they are deployed on any side of the battle, will be powerless.
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	Marie's World Tour 2001 \| Journal
		The passengers who had been thrown off all reboarded the bus and we drove out of the ancient city of Axum, en route to the Tigrean metropolis of Mekele.
		The Xena: Warrior Princess battle cry (or at least the Ethiopian version of it) came on as Ethiopian pop blared from the overhead speakers, and the bus horn (used with gusto whenever a goat or vehicle approached) sounded a musical song when pushed.
		The road, so nice and paved before, had become dusty and bumpy after our lunch stop in the town of Maychew.
	www.mariesworldtour.com /entries/1114.html (5350 words)

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		It is influenced by Hindu bhakti movements, [{Vedanta]] and shuphi, a form of Islamic song.
		The Battle of Saint-Mihel was a World War I battle on 12 September 1918 involving the United States Air Force.
		The Batman Bridge is a modern bridge crossing the Tamar River in northern Tasmania.
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	Encyclopedia: Battle of Maychew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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		On March 31, 1936, a propossed counter-attack using 40,000 of Selassie's best and last troops against the Italians.
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	FULL STATEMENT ON FAMINE IN ETHIOPIA - THE SOCIOECONOMIC ORIGIN OF FAMINE by Professor Mesfin Weldemariam
		In order to verify the rumour and break the official silence I took the bus to Tigray.
		From Maychew, Quiha and Meqele to Addigrat and the western towns of Tigray I saw the most horrible sight of corpses of men, women and children in all the streets.
		When I returned to Addis Abeba I tried to publish my observations on the newspapers.
	www.tigrai.org /News/Articles2003/ProMesfinOnFamine.html (1871 words)

	Second Italo-Abyssinian War -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		(Click link for more info and facts about Battles of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War) Battles of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War
		On March 29th, 1936, Graziani's forces (Click link for more info and facts about firebombed) firebombed the city of (Click link for more info and facts about Harar) Harar.
		Haile Selassie then fled into exile on May 2 and Badoglio's forces took the capital, (The capital of Ethiopia and the country's largest city; located in central Ethiopia) Addis Ababa on May 5th.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/S/Se/Second_Italo-Abyssinian_War1.htm (849 words)

	Addis Tewlid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Many despised him for leaving Maychew (the war front).
		That is why the rebels sang "YALTEGERA FERES TEFEI EYALECHIHU, KE MAYCHEW DENBERO LONDON GEBALACHIU".
		We both have been crazy at one another for sometimes.
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	The ACG/SZO Discussion Forums - Italian -ethopian war 1936 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		I think to use the term blitzkrieg you're supposed to have won the battle.............
		I think the italians did win the battle of maychew and occupied adis ababa
		Probaly the links on the site will help you further.
	www.strategyzoneonline.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-22971.html (122 words)

	Slide 1, 2, 3:
		The translation of the poem in English goes somewhat like this:
		Marching on Maychew could not have been possible
		Marching on Meqelle could not have been possible
	www2.bc.edu /~teferra/Reengineering_Eth_Centers.html (4020 words)

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