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Tewodros II

1818–1868

Tewodros II was emperor of Ethiopia from 1855 to 1868 and sought to reunify and centralise a politically fragmented realm. His detention of European representatives provoked the British expedition to Magdala, and he died by suicide as the fortress fell.

In George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman on the March, his reputation causes Napier to send him beyond the British lines to negotiate with regional opponents of Emperor Tewodros II, transforming a transport job into an undercover mission through unfamiliar highland politics.

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The Flashman Papers in Order

by George MacDonald Fraser 12 books 4.2

The Flashman Papers present the supposed memoirs of Sir Harry Paget Flashman, the bully expelled from Rugby School in Tom Brown’s School Days who becomes a decorated Victorian soldier despite being a coward, liar, opportunist and sexual predator. George MacDonald Fraser places this fictional witness inside documented nineteenth-century…

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