Word: ras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week Kenya's Navy made up in gallantry for what it lacked in gear and seamanship. It embarked some Nigerian shock troops from a Kenya port, landed them efficiently in a mangrove swamp near the Italian Somaliland border. Marching all night through a deserted countryside, the Nigerians raided Ras Chiamboni, formerly an important base for Italian operations in Kenya but now nearly undefended. They burned the whole town except for a mosque, then returned to their colleagues in empire...
Haile Selassie's field general outside his; captive country, charged with rousing and arming Ethiopian exiles in Kenya, the Sudan and the border hills, is Ras Birru, a, fierce, black-wooled little general who fought the Italians under Haile Selassie's late War Minister Ras Mulugheta and refused to surrender even when urged by Haile Selassie's turncoat son-in-law, Ras, Gugsa, who still governs the Tigrai region in the north...
After the Italian conquest, Abebe Arragia thought rebellion was useless, persuaded the two sons of his old friend, Ras Kassa, to stop agitating and perform the: ceremony of submission. When the Italians executed Ras Kassa's sons, Abebe Arragia was furious. He slipped out of Addis Ababa disguised as a Coptic priest. Gathering a few thousand rebel warriors who can move through the mountains like shadows, he preyed on Italian supply trains, and isolated outposts so savagely that the Italians put a price of 100,000 talers ($50,000) on his head, sent an expedition...