By Kidane Alemayehu and Konjit Meshesha “They (two British soldiers) observed a man standing near a haystack with a revolver in his hand. When he saw them prepare to fire, he ran behind a haystack, and both men heard plainly a shot fired. They came to the haystack, they saw the man who had run behind lying prostrate on the ground dying, with the revolver still convulsively clutched in his right hand.” The inscription on a silver plate attached to the revolver read: PRESENTED BY VICTORIA QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND TO THEODORUS EMPEROR OF ABYSSINIA AS A SLIGHT
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