The consequences of the utter destruction of the colonial Italian forces at Ad(o)wa on this date in 1896 by Emperor Menelik's Ethiopia was so huge, it rocked the Italian nation to its very roots... They came to teach Ethiopia a lesson, and ended up being totally routed.

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