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Conquering the Colonizers

  • May 18, 2015
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

On March 1, 1896, the Ethiopian army defeated Italian invaders in the Battle of Adwa. King Menilek II’s victory was the first big African triumph over a European power in the colonial era. Independent Ethiopia and Liberia were the only free African states in that time.

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