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Later Sir William. He later achieved the rank of Vice-Admiral. In 1884, Admiral Hewett led a delegation to Emperor Yohannes IV which negotiated the Hewett treaty(also known as the Adwa-Hewett treaty or the Tripartite treaty), the only treaty Emperor Yohannes ever signed with a foreign power. Signed on 3 June 1884 by Ethiopia, Egypt, and the United Kingdom, it dealt with Egypto-British relations while ending the still-lingering hostilities following the Ethiopian-Egyptian War (it was ratified by Queen Victoria a month later on 4 July and by the Khedive Tewfiq of Egypt soon after). Moreover, it guaranteed the British access through Ethiopian territory the successful evacuation of the Egyptian garrisons that had been isolated in southern Sudan by the revolt of Muhammad Ahmad (also known as the Mahdi) against the Egyptian rulers. ^[1] In return, the five articles established for Ethiopia:

1. Free transit of guns and ammunition and other trade through Massawa to and From Ethiopia,
2. The restoration of Egyptian-occupied Bogos in what is now North-central Eritrea) to Ethiopia as of 8 September, 1884,
3. The further withdrawal of Egyptian troops from Amedib, Kassala and Sanhit (Keren) near the Ethiopian border,
4. A facilitation of the appointment of Ethiopian Abunas (appointed by the Coptic Church in Egypt and historically often impeded by the Muslim rulers), and
5. A mutual extradition agreement between Ethiopia and Egypt.

While Massawa had been in Ottoman rule (though Egypt governed the port on the Empire's behalf from 1865 on) as the province of Habesh since 1557 following the Ethiopian-Ottoman War (see Habesh), the port was considered by Ethiopians and the Emperor to be rightfully under Ethiopian control. Yohannes interpreted the first article as allowing him to occupy Massawa after Egyptian withdrawal. Britain, however,

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Pages to add to:

• Afar sultanate - pre 1734 history (i.e. pre Mudaito dynasty)

• Agame

• Ahmed Gragn – Total rewrite?

• Amda Seyon I - feudal organization

• Aksumite currency - mottoes, anything else?

• Ge'ez language and Ge'ez alphabet - literature/evolution, respectively

• Giyorgis of Segla - create

• Gondarine dynasty - create

• Great Oromo migration

• Harar - expand history (i.e. from 1543/59/67)

• List of Monasteries and Churches in Ethiopia (see WP:ETH - page for each monastery & church)

• Political history of Eastern Africa - cleanup

• Rulers of Ethiopia - expand, cleanup a little (figure out all the Muslim sultanates) - clean up specific sub-pages and lists of rulers.

• Seeye Abraha - Clean up (partially done by Llywrch)

• Tigre people expand from encyc. article on sub-groups

• Zemene Mesafint - Clean up & expand

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