3-021-404 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Abyssinian Expedition: camp of General Sir R. Napier at Ad-Abaga, 1868. Engraving of a sketch by Mr. G. A. Henty, of British troops in '...Harimat, distant about thirty miles...from Adigerat [Adigrat, Tigray, Ethiopia]'. General (later Field Marshal) Robert Napier of the British Indian Army led the punitive expedition to Abyssinia in July 1867, defeating the Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia with minimal loss of life among his own forces, and rescuing the hostages of Tewodros. From "Illustrated London News", 1868.