Original Victorian Era Abyssinian Ethiopian Shotel Sword with Scabbard

Original item: Only One Available. These sickle-shaped swords are very rare and seldom seen. They come from Abyssinia, which we know today as Ethiopia. This was and basically still is a very impoverished country on the Horn of East Africa. In the 1868 Great Britain was forced to send an army to quell the Abyssinian Emperor of the time, a man named TEWDROS the Second. He was more widely known by his Anglicized name of EMPEROR THEODORE II. Theodore had sided with the Russian Tsar in the Crimean War of the mid 1850s and had victimized some British Missionaries. There had been some attempt to bring him into the fold of British influence including the presentation of a Revolver from Queen Victoria. Once the situation had deteriorated so far, Sir John Napier led an expeditionary force to settle the matters. The British Defeated the Abyssinian troops at every turn, forcing Emperor Theodore to retreat to his Castle Stronghold of MAGDALA, where the British attacked. On seeing his defeat Emperor