British Expedition to Abyssinia peaceable inhabitant shall be molested. The sole object for which the British Force has been sent to Abyssinia is the liberation of Her Majesty's subjects. There is no intention to occupy permanently any portion of the Abyssinian Territory, or to interfere with the government of the country." The two most powerful Ethiopian princes in the north, Dajamach Kassai of Tigray and Wagshum Gobeze of Lasta both pledged to cooperate and aid the British Army, thus transforming an apparent invasion of Abyssinia into a conquest of a single mountain fortress defended by only a few thousand warriors in the employ of
Name of Georgia (country) also adopted in Abkhaz and Georgia is referred as Қырҭтәыла "Kyrţtwyla" (i.e. Sakartvelo). The European "Georgia" probably stems from the Persian designation of the Georgians – "gurğ" (), "ğurğ" – which reached the Western European crusaders and pilgrims in the Holy Land who rendered the name as "Georgia" (also "Jorgania", "Giorginia", etc.) and, erroneously, explained its origin by the popularity of St. George (Tetri Giorgi) among the Georgians. This explanation is offered, among others, by Jacques de Vitry and Franz Ferdinand von Troilo. Another theory, popularized by the likes of Jean Chardin, semantically linked "Georgia" to Greek ("tiller of the