British Expedition to Abyssinia British Expedition to Abyssinia The British Expedition to Abyssinia was a rescue mission and punitive expedition carried out in 1868 by the armed forces of the British Empire against the Ethiopian Empire. Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia, then often referred to by the anglicized name Theodore, imprisoned several missionaries and two representatives of the British government in an attempt to get the attention of the British government, which had decided against his requests for military assistance. The punitive expedition launched by the British in response required the transportation of a sizable military force hundreds of miles across mountainous terrain lacking
Name of Canada organizations (such as the Organization of American States), the European Union, the United States, and other polities with which Canada has official relations as a state consistently use "Canada" as the only official name, state that Canada has no long-form name, or that the formal name is simply "Canada". While no legal document ever says that the name of the country is anything other than "Canada", "Dominion" and "Dominion of Canada" remain official titles of the country. In recent years, the terms "Dominion of Canada" and "Dominion" are occasionally used to distinguish modern (post-1867) Canada from either the earlier Province