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[Axumezana]

Yohannes was killed by Mahdist Sudanese at the Battle of Gallabat that took place on 9–10 March 1889 in Metemma near the Sudanese border. Evidence suggests that Emperor Yohannes had acted rashly and had made himself vulnerable, going beyond enemy lines in a range of enemy shots as victory was going to his side. Mortally wounded from a gunshot, he had been carried to his tent, where he announced that his nephew Ras Mengesha was actually his natural son, and named him his heir (his elder son Ras Araya Selassie had died a few years earlier). He died hours later. Although the Ethiopian army had almost annihilated their opponents in this battle, hearing that their ruler had been slain shattered their morale and allowed the Mahdists to counterattack, scattering the Ethiopian forces.

Yohannes's body was carried back to Tigray guarded by a small party, who were overtaken by the Mahdist troops of Zeki Tummal near the Atbara River, who captured the sovereign's body. Augustus B. Wylde, who claimed to have heard the story from a priest who managed to escape the slaughter, wrote how Yohannes' uncle Ras Areya stood beside the body of his dead master with "a few of his soldiers and the bravest of the king's servants, who had lost their all, and had no more prospects to live for".

Ras Areya was last seen standing alongside the box containing the king's body, after having expended all his ammunition, with his shield and sword in his hands, defending himself, till at last he was speared by a Dervish from behind, and died fighting gamely, "like the fine old warrior that he was".[17]
According to Wylde, as he saw death come Ras Areya announced "that he was now old and done for, that his time had come, and it was useless at his age to serve another master that he knew little about, and it was better to die like a man fighting unbelievers, than like a mule in a stable."[17] The Mahdists brought the Emperor's body back to their capital at Omdurman, where the head was put on a pike and paraded through the streets.

On 2 May of the same year 1889, Emperor Menelik signed then the Treaty of Wuchale with the Italians. The northern half of Tigray was given to Italy, in exchange for cash and guns.[18]

[tarik]

Anyhow, did u know that ur fake emperor was slave of z british and portugees? Z fact that u want so bad 2 include my Eritrea 2 ur useless cursed-land-tigray is beyond belief. We Eritreans never were ur brothers get z fkkk out of our face. We r from z Empire of Adulis, and got nothing 2 do with ur useless fake axum crap,white man made lie king solomon crap. Like it or not it was not z mahdists that cut ur british and portugees b!tch yohanes head like a goat, it was my Eritrean ppl of tribe of Beni-Amir aka Eritrean Tigrayit from z Great Marshall Osman Dinga himself. I said z real Beja-Tigrayit warrior not z fake from othmanik empire. Here is Z Real Osman Digna who cut z head of ur b!tch yohanes.BTW his skull i still in Omdurman, When r u going 2 get it? I heard z sudanese r using it 2 urinate and sh!t in it, i am talking about ur fake yohanes skull.

[Axumezana]

I see you are internally fighting with yourself and suffering to hide a truth!

[Misraq]

below is the truth.....

As mercenary as Yohannes was, he enlisted himself to serve Egyptian and British interest in Mehadi Sudan. The mercenary traitor Yohannes helped the Egyptian soldiers escape from Sudanese encirclement and besiege at Kassala and The Mehadist Sudan invaded Gondar as a revenge to Yohannes's mercenary role for British and Egyptian colonialists. It is to be remembered that the brave Mehadists were fighting anti-colonialism war and it was sad that the mercenary Yohannes attacked them when unprovoked.

The battle of Metema then was an interesting war where this mercenary agame got what he deserved. His head choped and taken to omdruman for display. You can imagine how he ended this way and carma is a b!tch as they say. Yohannes life long history is treachory and brutality. For instance Yohannes has a direct role on the death of Emperor Teodros the great. Yohannes helped The british on the war of Mekdela where Teodros commited suicide.

Yohannes then recieved a cache of weapons for his mercenary role from the brits. Using that he distroyed the Wagshum lasta army and killed King Wagshum Gobeze (Emperor Tekle Giorgis) after taking him as captive. The way yohannes killed wagshum gobeze is typical trademark of agames where there is no sign of humanity. Yohannes pierced Wagshum Gobeze's eyes with metalic narrow hook making him blind first. Then make him suffer till he get executed.

Youhannes also killed 30,000 wollo muslims of raya origin. as a result of that, he reduced their number significantly.

Yohannes also killed 15,000 Gojjam people when he marched to gojjam using the weapons the british gave him

In the end, this brutal and mercenary agame got his head chopped by mehadists. The individual who is responsible for his death is not yet known. Some say it is the Wollo muslim who shoot him and some say the sudanese. seeing him fall, the agame-tigray did a massive retreat leaving him and his entroug to be captured by sudanese. And his head is now in the Omdruman musium,

As to the case of Eritrea, Menilik did not sell Eritrea. Menilik has full knowledge about the letter and communication between Alula and the Italians where Alula was enlisting himself as Italian friend saying Menilik is too far and you don't need him. Italians were allowed to stay in Eritrea by Yohannes himself. He saw Italians as friends than the Mehadist Sudanese. Alula also has a plan to have Eritrea and Tigray as Mengesha domain but Eritrea was out of his control. Menilik has no power to evict Italians from Eritrea. Infact Eritreans did not want to be with Tigray and he respected that.

[Abere]

Axumezana,

The political influence of Tigray in Ethiopian and the region is below 4%. Please don't make a lot of noise about it. This is statistically insignificant. Also, stop whining about Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia, there was no reason as he could not have exploited resource or tax revenue from the then Tigray province. He fought against Italy out of pure love of Ethiopia, not in return expecting revenue from Tigray, because Tigray does not have such potential. The bad legacy of Atse Yohannes (that is Atse Yohannes brought Italy and Britain to Ethiopia) compelled him to fight for the dignity of the nation. Tigray should have been thankful and erected a monument for Emperor Menelik II, he paved the way for Tigres to go everywhere in Ethiopia make their living freely. He was the wisest, merciful , most successful and most loved King in the 3000 years of Ethiopia. There was none like him. Simply you have this defective cultural DNA of jealousy on others success and blessings does not mean you can change a thing - it only eats your mind. King of King, Emperor Menelik, is the King of all Africans. Africans revered him. Thugs from a tiny area of Agame Awuraja do not like him does not mean anything.

[Axumezana]

Menelik made Ethiopia land locked!

[Misraq]

Menelik made Ethiopia land locked!

If it is as you said, your degenerative agame stupidity enlisted itself again for the same cause you are crying about during Haileselassie and Mengistu time. didn't agames fought being hand and glove with Eritreans in a hope of being one day with them? When your twisted idea did not materialized, you opened war on them in 1998-2000 wasting all human life and materials in both countries. Now you blame others for your misfortune which is typical of mean spirited sick individuals as you people are.

You are now in your correct place. learn how to live with it else you will lose whatever is left

[Wedi]

below is the truth.....

As mercenary as Yohannes was, he enlisted himself to serve Egyptian and British interest in Mehadi Sudan. The mercenary traitor Yohannes helped the Egyptian soldiers escape from Sudanese encirclement and besiege at Kassala and The Mehadist Sudan invaded Gondar as a revenge to Yohannes's mercenary role for British and Egyptian colonialists. It is to be remembered that the brave Mehadists were fighting anti-colonialism war and it was sad that the mercenary Yohannes attacked them when unprovoked.

The battle of Metema then was an interesting war where this mercenary agame got what he deserved. His head choped and taken to omdruman for display. You can imagine how he ended this way and carma is a b!tch as they say. Yohannes life long history is treachory and brutality. For instance Yohannes has a direct role on the death of Emperor Teodros the great. Yohannes helped The british on the war of Mekdela where Teodros commited suicide.

Yohannes then recieved a cache of weapons for his mercenary role from the brits. Using that he distroyed the Wagshum lasta army and killed King Wagshum Gobeze (Emperor Tekle Giorgis) after taking him as captive. The way yohannes killed wagshum gobeze is typical trademark of agames where there is no sign of humanity. Yohannes pierced Wagshum Gobeze's eyes with metalic narrow hook making him blind first. Then make him suffer till he get executed.

Youhannes also killed 30,000 wollo muslims of raya origin. as a result of that, he reduced their number significantly.

Yohannes also killed 15,000 Gojjam people when he marched to gojjam using the weapons the british gave him

In the end, this brutal and mercenary agame got his head chopped by mehadists. The individual who is responsible for his death is not yet known. Some say it is the Wollo muslim who shoot him and some say the sudanese. seeing him fall, the agame-tigray did a massive retreat leaving him and his entroug to be captured by sudanese. And his head is now in the Omdruman musium,

As to the case of Eritrea, Menilik did not sell Eritrea. Menilik has full knowledge about the letter and communication between Alula and the Italians where Alula was enlisting himself as Italian friend saying Menilik is too far and you don't need him. Italians were allowed to stay in Eritrea by Yohannes himself. He saw Italians as friends than the Mehadist Sudanese. Alula also has a plan to have Eritrea and Tigray as Mengesha domain but Eritrea was out of his control. Menilik has no power to evict Italians from Eritrea. Infact Eritreans did not want to be with Tigray and he respected that.

Misraq spot on! Thank you for this detail explanation and information.

[Selam/]

You nailed it. Yohannes was killed while he was trying to save the British & the Khedive armies from the dervish while they were trying to evacuate from the Sudan. Think about it, Italians were also fighting against the mehadists in Kassala at the same time. So in a way, yohannes was an errand runner to Egypt, Britain & Italy. 130 years later, his TPLF offsprings are doing exactly the same thing. The end result is humiliation, suffering, and death. Doesn’t it sound familiar?

below is the truth.....

As mercenary as Yohannes was, he enlisted himself to serve Egyptian and British interest in Mehadi Sudan. The mercenary traitor Yohannes helped the Egyptian soldiers escape from Sudanese encirclement and besiege at Kassala and The Mehadist Sudan invaded Gondar as a revenge to Yohannes's mercenary role for British and Egyptian colonialists. It is to be remembered that the brave Mehadists were fighting anti-colonialism war and it was sad that the mercenary Yohannes attacked them when unprovoked.

The battle of Metema then was an interesting war where this mercenary agame got what he deserved. His head choped and taken to omdruman for display. You can imagine how he ended this way and carma is a b!tch as they say. Yohannes life long history is treachory and brutality. For instance Yohannes has a direct role on the death of Emperor Teodros the great. Yohannes helped The british on the war of Mekdela where Teodros commited suicide.

Yohannes then recieved a cache of weapons for his mercenary role from the brits. Using that he distroyed the Wagshum lasta army and killed King Wagshum Gobeze (Emperor Tekle Giorgis) after taking him as captive. The way yohannes killed wagshum gobeze is typical trademark of agames where there is no sign of humanity. Yohannes pierced Wagshum Gobeze's eyes with metalic narrow hook making him blind first. Then make him suffer till he get executed.

Youhannes also killed 30,000 wollo muslims of raya origin. as a result of that, he reduced their number significantly.

Yohannes also killed 15,000 Gojjam people when he marched to gojjam using the weapons the british gave him

In the end, this brutal and mercenary agame got his head chopped by mehadists. The individual who is responsible for his death is not yet known. Some say it is the Wollo muslim who shoot him and some say the sudanese. seeing him fall, the agame-tigray did a massive retreat leaving him and his entroug to be captured by sudanese. And his head is now in the Omdruman musium,

As to the case of Eritrea, Menilik did not sell Eritrea. Menilik has full knowledge about the letter and communication between Alula and the Italians where Alula was enlisting himself as Italian friend saying Menilik is too far and you don't need him. Italians were allowed to stay in Eritrea by Yohannes himself. He saw Italians as friends than the Mehadist Sudanese. Alula also has a plan to have Eritrea and Tigray as Mengesha domain but Eritrea was out of his control. Menilik has no power to evict Italians from Eritrea. Infact Eritreans did not want to be with Tigray and he respected that.

[euroland]

AxumeQizenam
You got really schooled and finally stamped on your dense head by Ethiopians here LOL. What a jackass you are; you really deserved a medal for being the most stupidest Agame Clown here in Mereja.