SEE BELOW HOW TIGRAY BACK STABBED KING TEDROS OF GONDER.
"the British rewarded Ras Kassai of Tigray, for his services with a formidable quantity of supplies, which Marcus estimates were worth "approximately £500,000": six mortars, six howitzers, about 900 muskets and rifles, stocks of ammunition which included 585,480 percussion caps, and other goods and supplies. These later aided his rise to Emperor, against such talented rivals as Wagshum Gobeze".
1868 Expedition to Abyssinia - Wikipedia