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:
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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