Seventh Annual Victory of Adwa Dinner
3 March 2018
The International Society for the Imperial Ethiopian Orders Seventh Annual Victory of Adwa Dinner Washington DC USA. The Battle of Adwa (Amharic: Amharic translated: Adowa, or sometimes by the Italian name Adua) was fought on 1 March 1896 between the Ethiopian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy near the town of Adwa, Ethiopia, in Tigray. This climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War, was a decisive defeat for Italy and secured Ethiopian sovereignty. As the 20th century approached, Africa had been carved up among the European powers at the Berlin Conference. The two independent exceptions were the Republic of Liberia on the west coast and Ethiopia, or then still commonly known as Abyssinia, in the eastern Horn of Africa region. The newly unified Kingdom of Italy was a relative newcomer to the imperialist scramble for Africa. Italy had two recently obtained African territories: Eritrea and Italian Somalia. Both were near Ethiopia on the Horn of Africa. Italy sought to improve its position in Africa by conquering Ethiopia and joining it with its two territories. Menelik II as the contemporary Ethiopian leader pitted Italy against its European rivals while stockpiling weapons to defend Ethiopia against the Italians.
- Document type: Program
- Time period: Post Federal Presidency
- People: Pamela COPLEY, Greg COPLEY, Fassil GABREMARIAM, HIH Princess Saba KEBEDE, HIH Prince Ermias SAHLE-SELASSIE HAILE-SELASSIE, Gizachew TIRUNEH, Theodore VESTAL
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