http://exiledonline.com/its-d-day-in-zalambessa/ All the news not fit to print: Gary Brecher the War Nerd, Mark Ames, Yasha Levine, Eileen Jones and the rest of Team eXiled Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:48:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://exiledonline.com/its-d-day-in-zalambessa/comment-page-1/#comment-6760 Jeff Tue, 19 May 2009 20:26:00 +0000 http://exiledonline.com/?p=8844#comment-6760 An ethnic Oromo recently told me that as the Amhara were conquering Oromo lands around Addis Ababa in the late nineteenth century, the Oromo were getting their asses kicked by the Abyssinians, who had muskets and were fighting in that civil war line-up-and-shoot formations. The Oromo didn't know what to do, what with no guns and all. Eventually, they got horsemen to wear "armor" of thick leaves and charge the Ethiopian formations, chucking beehives at the massed enemy. Can this be true? An ethnic Oromo recently told me that as the Amhara were conquering Oromo lands around Addis Ababa in the late nineteenth century, the Oromo were getting their asses kicked by the Abyssinians, who had muskets and were fighting in that civil war line-up-and-shoot formations. The Oromo didn’t know what to do, what with no guns and all. Eventually, they got horsemen to wear “armor” of thick leaves and charge the Ethiopian formations, chucking beehives at the massed enemy. Can this be true?

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