'The Abyssinia Expedition: The Battle of Arogee Before Magdala on Good Friday, April 10, 1868', (1901). British soldiers at Magdala in the Ethiopian Empire, historically known as Abyssinia. The 1868 British Expedition to Abyssinia, a rescue mission and punitive expedition, was carried out by the armed forces of the British Empire against the Ethiopian Empire. The British laid siege to the fortress of Magdala on 13 April. From "The Life and Deeds of Earl Roberts, Vol. II. - To The Abdication of Yakub Khan", by J. Maclaren Cobban. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1901]