The 1906 caption reads: “DEATH OF KING THEODORE OF ABYSSINIA.—This illustrates one of the best known of the determined punitive expeditions by which Great Britain has avenged injustice or injury done to the least of her subjects, even in the most distant quarters of the globe. The King of Abyssinia in Africa, having slain two Englishmen and refused reparation, an army was sent against him under General Napier in 1867. The Abyssinians were defeated only after a desperate resistance; and as at last the resistless English troops stormed over the stone walls of his capital, King Theodore shot hims
The 1906 caption reads: “DEATH OF KING THEODORE OF ABYSSINIA.—This illustrates one of the best known of the determined punitive expeditions by which Great Britain has avenged injustice or injury done to the least of her subjects, even in the most distant quarters of the globe. The King of Abyssinia in Africa, having slain two Englishmen and refused reparation, an army was sent against him under General Napier in 1867. The Abyssinians were defeated only after a desperate resistance; and as at last the resistless English troops stormed over the stone walls of his capital, King Theodore shot himself and died.”
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