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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: uswe</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Jah Boot, so why did Haile flee Itiopia? </div></div>
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The battle was so hard-fought that the Italians did not immediately pursue the retreating enemy. By the evening of 3 April, however, <span style="font-weight: bold">the Fascists were moving on the right and left flanks of Haile Selassie's rear guard, seeking to cut the Ethiopians off. At 9:30 P.M., well after the possibility of air attack, <span style="color: #FF0000">the emperor and his army</span> abandoned their equipment and took the road for Korem. On the march to Lake Ashange, the rebellious Azebo Oromo shot stragglers and otherwise harassed the survivors. At 7:00 A.M., on 4 April, finding the retreating columns near the lake in the open, <span style="color: #FF0000">Italian planes began an all-day attack with bombs and gas</span> that completely broke what remained of an organized Ethiopian army. For Haile Sellassie, it was a nightmarish day of massacre and cruelty: "If I could speak of what I saw, no one would believe me. I can only reflect on it myself. Isn't it all a dream?"
Ethiopians at the rear of the retreating mass, among them both the emperor and the high command, managed to survive.</span>end quote]
'haile sellassie I: the formative years' by harold g. marcus
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: uswe</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Jah Boot, so why did Haile flee Itiopia? </div></div>
it started with this:
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The battle was so hard-fought that the Italians did not immediately pursue the retreating enemy. By the evening of 3 April, however, <span style="font-weight: bold">the Fascists were moving on the right and left flanks of Haile Selassie's rear guard, seeking to cut the Ethiopians off. At 9:30 P.M., well after the possibility of air attack, <span style="color: #FF0000">the emperor and his army</span> abandoned their equipment and took the road for Korem. On the march to Lake Ashange, the rebellious Azebo Oromo shot stragglers and otherwise harassed the survivors. At 7:00 A.M., on 4 April, finding the retreating columns near the lake in the open, <span style="color: #FF0000">Italian planes began an all-day attack with bombs and gas</span> that completely broke what remained of an organized Ethiopian army. For Haile Sellassie, it was a nightmarish day of massacre and cruelty: "If I could speak of what I saw, no one would believe me. I can only reflect on it myself. Isn't it all a dream?"
Ethiopians at the rear of the retreating mass, among them both the emperor and the high command, managed to survive.</span>end quote]
'haile sellassie I: the formative years' by harold g. marcus
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