Manelik II defeated Italy at Adowa with an army of 100,000 in 1896

Evidence

And in 1896, as a complement to the achievement of the Haitian slaves one hundred years earlier, Manelik II of Ethiopia mounted an army of 100,000 in order to defeat the Italian invader. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 824

Categorization

• XREF: Explicitly linked in the text to the Haitian revolution, connecting to the reader’s arc of the Black radical tradition’s height.