GW 031 Italian cavalry officer Africa 1915

Although Italy arrived late to the colonial partition, it obtained zones of influence in the North and in Horn of Africa. Given its geographical proximity, Libya controls its border with Egypt. In addition to Ethiopia and Eritrea. Suffering at the end of the 19th century, a serious defeat at the hands of natives in Adua, in Abyssinia. It was a disaster very similar to that suffered by the Anglo-Egyptian troops, in front of the Mahdi, in the Sudan.