ethiopia King Tewdros the second

Описание: This is the pictorial history of emperor of Ethiopia King Tewdros 1855-1869 birth name Kassa Hailu .The times were known as the Zemene Mesafint or "Age of the Princes". During this era, warlords, regional princes, and noble houses were on fight to control power. Tewodros sought to unify he fought them and crushed them all. But he was nearly always away on campaign during his tenure as emperor. He had also a threat from external sources; fearful of these northerly Muslim powers, he wrote a letter to a fellow Christian monarch, Queen Victoria asking for British assistance. Tewodros asked the British Consul in Ethiopia, Captain Charles Duncan Cameron, to carry a letter to Queen Victoria requesting skilled workers to come to teach his subjects how to produce firearms. Cameron had not taken the letter to London personally as a result the latter took 2 years to reach to Queen Victoria. Learning Cameron did not delivered the letter and spent time in enemy Egypt The king imprisoned Cameron, together with all the British subject. To secure release of its citzin the queen sent delegation and the delegate brought with them no skilled workers as Tewodros had requested. The king felt insulted and imprisoned the members of the mission as well. The queen sent army 30,000 and strong led by Robert Napier, came from the British India. In his efforts to keep skilled Europeans in Ethiopia, Tewodros arranged a marriage between one of his daughters and a Swiss military engineer. That branch of Tewodros's family ended up in Russia; as a consequence, the late British actor Peter Ustinov could claim to be Tewodros's great-great-grandson. Tewodros and Napier's army fought at magdala. With the support of war lords the British army closed to the kings forters . at this moment the king declared that " i will never teach surrender for Ethiopians" and he committed suicide.