The Quarterly Review, Volume 237William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1922 |
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... to win over the heir to the Shoan throne by offering him his daughter in marriage . Sehala expressed himself pleased and flattered , but made use of. ( 38 ) ABYSSINIA UNDER MENELIK AND AFTER (With Map ) By G E Underhill.
... to win over the heir to the Shoan throne by offering him his daughter in marriage . Sehala expressed himself pleased and flattered , but made use of. ( 38 ) ABYSSINIA UNDER MENELIK AND AFTER (With Map ) By G E Underhill.
Page 34
... Shoan army and in more than doubling his ancestral territories . The geographical position of Shoa was highly favour . able to Menelik's ambitious plans . It formed the southern excrescence of old Abyssinia from which it was practically ...
... Shoan army and in more than doubling his ancestral territories . The geographical position of Shoa was highly favour . able to Menelik's ambitious plans . It formed the southern excrescence of old Abyssinia from which it was practically ...
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... Shoan population , but the Abyssinian minority had for more than a century reduced them to the position of serfs , who cultivated the lands of their idle warrior lords and served as reliable soldiers in their armies . The youthful ...
... Shoan population , but the Abyssinian minority had for more than a century reduced them to the position of serfs , who cultivated the lands of their idle warrior lords and served as reliable soldiers in their armies . The youthful ...
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... Shoan army , which he took care to keep , in numbers , arms , and equipment , far superior to the armies of any of his provinces . He himself directed the administration of Shoa and Ifat , and governed the newly - conquered Galla ...
... Shoan army , which he took care to keep , in numbers , arms , and equipment , far superior to the armies of any of his provinces . He himself directed the administration of Shoa and Ifat , and governed the newly - conquered Galla ...
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... Shoan chiefs , once more favoured Taitu's designs , till matters came to a crisis in March 1910. Then the lead- ing Rases of Shoa united to crush her ascendency and insisted on a restoration of the state of things as decreed by Menelik ...
... Shoan chiefs , once more favoured Taitu's designs , till matters came to a crisis in March 1910. Then the lead- ing Rases of Shoa united to crush her ascendency and insisted on a restoration of the state of things as decreed by Menelik ...
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