 In only three days the Italians had captured Adwa by committing the world's first mass aerial bombardment of civilians.In December Pietro Badoglio replaced de Bono as commander of the invasion because of de Bono's cautious advance.In violation of the Geneva convention, the Italian military committed war crimes by extensively using chemical warfare against the Ethiopian military and, even more so, against Ethiopian civilians as well as attacking Ethiopian, British, and Swedish Red Cross facilities.