Battle of Adwa
March 1, 1896
Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II, with a hundred thousand men and modern rifles, crushed an Italian invasion in the northern mountains of Ethiopia. Eleven thousand Italians were killed or captured in a single day. It was the most decisive African victory over a European power in the colonial age. Ethiopia would keep its independence for another forty years.
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