Magdala

Magdala, a hill-fortress and small town of Abyssinia (q.v.), 300 miles S. of Annesley Bay, on the Red Sea, stood perched on a plateau 9110 feet above sea-level. It was the place of captivity of the British prisoners for whose rescue an expedition was sent out under Sir Robert Napier (Lord Napier of Magdala); and on 13th April 1868 the town was burned and its defences destroyed.