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Mekele war section

I took out 'When Galliano was on the verge of sacrificing himself and his soldiers by blowing up the fort, the siege came to an end thanks to the diplomatic effort by Baratieri. Galliano and his soldiers left the fort with flying colours parading before the Abyssinians.'. This is biased. His army was facing defeat and the Abyssinians had taken a strategic position, leaving them without water for 15 days. But Menelik was a diplomatic person who preferred to negotiate. He tried to negotiate throughout all of the Ethio-Italian wars. Menelik was actually not planning to fight the Mekele war originally (he was preparing for the Adwa war) and he had written to Galliano asking him to leave the fort. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tesatafi (talk • contribs) 11:31, 10 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to point out that the debated line comes from english translation of the italian Wiki page on Galliano: since there's no reference about this particular statement, I agree that the real flow of events is debated. Though, we have no evidence that the entire merit for the successful negotiate has to be received by Menelik, nor by Baratieri neither. There's also a misunderstanding about what Galliano was ready to do as a "last sacrifice": some say a desperate sortie, some that he was going to blow up the entire fort. I suggest that the previous line would be changed in 'After diplomatic efforts of both the Emperor Menelik and the italian commander-in-chief, general Baratieri, Gallieno, who was ready to sacrifice himself and all his men, was given a safe-conduct in order to left the fort and reach the italian lines.' Best regards. - Lord Ics (talk), 9:50, 23 March 2017 (UTC)