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Storming of the Gateway, Magdala, 13 April 1868. Watercolour by Lt Cornelius Francis (Frank) James, Bombay Staff Corps, 1868. The attack on the Kaffir Bir gateway by the 10th Company Royal Engineers supported by K Company Madras Sappers and Miners, and the 33rd Duke of Wellington’s Regiment. Associated with Abyssinia (1868). The capture and destruction of Magdala was the final act in the expedition to defeat the Emperor Theodore II of Abyssinia and release the British hostages he had taken.

Magdala, Capture of, 1868 (Abyssinia 1867-1868)