Defense captured another victory action

Although Wahhabi's missionaries of the Arabian Peninsula made efforts to penetrate Ethiopia from the nineteenth century, they had little success until the last decades. During the first half of the 1800s, Egyptian / Ottoman power in neighboring Sudan made periodic incursions within Ethiopia. In 1875, Egypt's hive tried unsuccessfully to conquer Ethiopia entering from the Red Sea.

The last major organized threat from Islam occurred in 1888 when Mahdi's forces in Sudan dismissed the ancient Ethiopian capital of Gondar and burned many of his churches. Subsequently, both Ethiopians and Marxists housed the opposing rebels on the other side, creating a situation of Tit-for-Tat that has continued periodically to this day.