Loss of Honor Quotes
Of the 10, 596 Italian troops, 4,133 were killed or missing and 2,000 were captured. Baratieri was court-marshaled but acquitted. Italy’s imperial African plans were dashed. This defeat did much to create and sustain the poor world military reputation of the Italians extending to this day.
Sharif Husain was the leader of the Hashemite Tribes who had agreed with the British to lead a Hashemite Arab revolt against the Ottoman Turks in exchange for the Hashimites to have their own independent state—Jordan. This also explains the close relationship between Jordan and Britain. The notion of enslavement to the British illustrates a blind spot that the Ottoman Empire had in its waning years. The Ottoman Sultan had the power of life and death over everyone in the empire, and Istanbul appointed all public officials for all jurisdictions, and made laws that applied to all. The Hashemites would instead have their own nation, make their own laws and would by subject to British foreign policy to the extent that the British guaranteed their independence from the Sultan and the Ottomans. They regarded it as freedom and not slavery.
This dictum has driven blood feuds that have lasted over 200 years. It has also made governance and diplomacy in Northern Albania very difficult.
