[Black Star News Show\WBAI 99.5\ Battle of Adwa]
Africa celebrates one of its greatest military victories—the Battle of Adwa, on March 1, 1896, when a huge army led by Empress Taytu Betul and Emperor Menelik II together with several Ethiopian generals, including Das Alula Engida, Ras Michael, Ras Mengesha, Ras Makonnen, and others defeated an imperial Italian army that set out to turn Ethiopia into a colony.
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