Qualla: Battle of Culqualber https://qualla.com/battle-of-culqualber en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Culqualber https://qualla.com/battle-of-culqualber Battle of Culqualber: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-culqualber/ They spread towels on the ground at night to catch the dew. By morning, the cloth held just enough moisture to wring into canteens. This was how the garrison at Culqualber Pass drank in the autumn of 1941 - Italian Carabinieri, Blackshirts, and Eritrean askari, cut off from the water of the Guarno and Gumera rivers, reduced to harvesting humidity from the Ethiopian highlands while British forces tightened a noose around their mountain ridge at roughly 12.6 degrees north, 37.47 east.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/f/4/x/battle-of-culqualber-wp/sf4x-battle-of-culqualber-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Culqualber: The Last Pass to Gondar https://qualla.com/battle-of-culqualber/ The surrounding country was a jumble of ambas - flat-topped highlands - divided by ravines so deep men could not cross them on foot. One road threaded through it all toward Gondar, and that road went through the Culqualber Pass. After the Italian defeats at Keren and Amba Alagi e...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/f/4/x/battle-of-culqualber-wp/sf4x-battle-of-culqualber-the-last-pass-to-gondar.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Culqualber: Carabinieri and Askari https://qualla.com/battle-of-culqualber/ The garrison was not only Italian. Under Colonel Augusto Ugolini and Major Alfredo Serranti stood 360 Carabinieri and Zaptie, 675 Blackshirts, and 620 Eritrean askari of the LXVII Colonial Battalion under Major Carlo Garbieri. About two hundred African women and children - the wi...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/f/4/x/battle-of-culqualber-wp/sf4x-battle-of-culqualber-carabinieri-and-askari.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Culqualber: Siege by Thirst https://qualla.com/battle-of-culqualber/ Ethiopian irregulars began cutting the supply road at the end of August, and by late September the Commonwealth forces had closed the ring. The food shrank to bargutta, a coarse flour made from fodder and animal feed. Water was worse. Carabinieri who tried to reach the rivers wer...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/f/4/x/battle-of-culqualber-wp/sf4x-battle-of-culqualber-siege-by-thirst.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Culqualber: The Long Patriot War https://qualla.com/battle-of-culqualber/ The besiegers were not only British and South African regulars. Among the 22,500 men gathering for the final assault were roughly 10,000 Ethiopian irregulars - the arbegnoch, the patriot resistance that had been fighting the Italian occupation since 1936. For them Culqualber was ...

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