The Quarterly Review, Volumes 237-238William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1922 |
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... Emperor's early years . Sehala Mariam - such was his original name - was born in 1844 , the son of Haile Malicot , King of Shoa . His father died in 1855 on the eve of meeting in battle the newly - proclaimed Emperor Theodore , who had ...
... Emperor's early years . Sehala Mariam - such was his original name - was born in 1844 , the son of Haile Malicot , King of Shoa . His father died in 1855 on the eve of meeting in battle the newly - proclaimed Emperor Theodore , who had ...
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... Emperor of all Abyssinia under the title of John IV . The troublous times of John's seventeen years reign were astutely used by Menelik to strengthen his own position and to enlarge his territories . First the Egyptian , then the ...
... Emperor of all Abyssinia under the title of John IV . The troublous times of John's seventeen years reign were astutely used by Menelik to strengthen his own position and to enlarge his territories . First the Egyptian , then the ...
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... Emperor , no rivals dared to contest his claims . His supremacy was recognised by Tekla Haimanot , King of Gojjam , and the other great chieftains . Only Ras Mangasha , the natural son of the late Emperor , whom John on his death - bed ...
... Emperor , no rivals dared to contest his claims . His supremacy was recognised by Tekla Haimanot , King of Gojjam , and the other great chieftains . Only Ras Mangasha , the natural son of the late Emperor , whom John on his death - bed ...
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... Emperor's dominions . The more burning question of the Sudan frontier was left untouched . On June 24 the Italians signed a new commercial treaty on the ordinary lines , but a few weeks later found them- selves forced to accept a new ...
... Emperor's dominions . The more burning question of the Sudan frontier was left untouched . On June 24 the Italians signed a new commercial treaty on the ordinary lines , but a few weeks later found them- selves forced to accept a new ...
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... Emperor had possessed himself of the extensive distric north of Lake Abaia inhabited by the Wallamu tribe Now , in the autumn of 1897 , four distinct expeditions were dispatched . The first expedition , according to French ideas , had ...
... Emperor had possessed himself of the extensive distric north of Lake Abaia inhabited by the Wallamu tribe Now , in the autumn of 1897 , four distinct expeditions were dispatched . The first expedition , according to French ideas , had ...
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