World War: BATTLE OF ETHIOPIA: Empire's

Last Pocket
Monday, Dec. 08, 1941

Britain's East African forces last week captured Gondar, the last Italian stronghold in
Ethiopia. Using Highland, Indian, Sudanese, South and West African, Free French and
Ethiopian troops, 46-year-old Major General Charles Fowkes took into camp 10,000 weary,
hungry Italians and natives with their 50 guns.
In a campaign which lasted almost a year, the British, never having used more than 20,000
infantry troops and 68 field guns at any one time, had conquered a territory nearly seven
times as big as Great Britain and put out of action almost 200,000 Italians and native
troops.