Africa' and 'could not easily be brought under subjection by any
  foreign Power'. At a military parade held in Addis
  Ababa in 1902 to commemorate Ethiopia's victory at Adowa, an estimated
  600,000 Ethiopian troops - about 100,000 short of the empire's total military
  strength....All the troops were armed with modern weapons, including rifles, machine guns, and cannon.

Source: Akpan
As a consequence of this victory,

The Adowa campaign gave Menelik considerable international prestige.
  The French and British dispatched diplomatic missions to sign treaties
  with him, while other embassies arrived from the Sudanese Mahdists,
  the Sultan of the Ottoman empire and the Tsar of Russia.

Source: Akpan

a positive step towards reducing corporate complexity, but note there will be marginal dilution from the transaction ... as the increased offer is somewhat offset by elimination of distributions to the 17 per cent non-controlling interest," said analysts with Tudor Pickering Holt & Co. in a report.

Enbridge owns 83% of Spectra shares

As Enbridge owns 83 per cent of Spectra's shares, it already has the two-thirds majority required for unitholder approval of the transaction, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter.

It said the revised deal has unanimous support of a conflicts committee appointed by the separate Spectra board of directors.

In May, Calgary-based Enbridge launched an initiative to buy back all of its pipeline subsidiaries in the United States with shares worth $11.4 billion at the time, citing