Queen Victoria’s Revenge: Storming the Citadel (TRIH ep 706, part 2)
1868 · Resource
Who was Lieutenant General Napier, the man set out to rescue the European hostages held by Emperor Tewodros II? How did he plan to attack the emperor’s fortress, Magdala? And, did they manage to successfully escape Abyssinia?
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Around 1868
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)