6/17/2023 0 Comments Ras alula 1876Munzinger was a Swiss adventurer who was in the service of Egypt. Note: Colonel Kirkham was a British officer who was contracted to help train the Ethiopian soldiers. Therefore this period of history is ignored or deliberately twisted by Eritrean historians, and most of the younger Eritreans have no idea about it. It is currently the fashion in Eritrea to hack out a separate Eritrean identity from the broader current of Ethiopian history. Note: The battle sites of Gundet and Gura are both located within present-day Eritrea. Other accounts of these battles from Ethiopian and other sources can be found in the biography of Ras Alula and in general histories of Ethiopia. Robinson This account is useful as it presents a different perspective on the Ethiopia-Egypt conflict. The accounts are extracted from an article published in the Journal African Affairs in 193x by A.E. These officers were sent to Ethiopia, and the following accounts of the Battles of Gundet and Gura are drawn in large part from their diaries and other notes. He intended to create an Egyptian African empire by swallowing up Sudan and Ethiopia.įor this purpose he recruited a large army staffed with European officers and Confederate officers from the American Civil War which had ended 10 years earlier. In the second half of the 19th century, an ambitious and energetic new Khedive negotiated with the Ottomans to take control of Egypt. Egypt emerged as a powerful force in Africa during the latter stages of the decline of the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire.
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