Tewodros Dies at Magdala
April 13, 1868
After British troops under Napier stormed his mountain fortress of Magdala in Ethiopia - a ten-thousand-mile expedition to rescue a few diplomats the emperor had imprisoned - Tewodros II put a pistol in his mouth rather than surrender. The British looted manuscripts and crowns and went home. Ethiopia's great modernizer was dead at fifty.
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Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.