Battle of Adwa

Battle of Adwa
Battle of Adwa
	Part of the First Italo-Ethiopian War
	; British illustration of "Dabormida's last rally"
Date	1 March 1896
Location	Adwa, Tigray Province, Ethiopia14°1′8″N 38°58′24″E / 14.01889°N 38.97333°E
Result	Ethiopian victory
Belligerents
Ethiopia	Italy
Commanders and leaders
Menelik II; Taytu Betul; Ras Makonnen ; Ras Mikael; Ras Mengesha; Tekle Haymanot; Ras Alula	Oreste Baratieri; Vittorio Dabormida †; Giuseppe Arimondi †; Matteo Albertone (POW)
Strength
73,000–100,000	14,519–17,770
Casualties and losses
3,886–7,000 killed	~6,000 killed; 3,865 captured
	class=notpageimage\| Location within Ethiopia

The Battle of Adwa (Amharic: የዐድዋ ጦርነት; Tigrinya: ውግእ ዓድዋ; Italian: battaglia di Adua, also spelled Adowa) was the climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War. Ethiopian army led by Ras Makonen Wolde Mikael managed to defeat the invading Italian force led by Oreste Baratieri on Sunday, March 1, 1896, near the town of Adwa. The decisive victory thwarted the campaign of the Kingdom of Italy to expand its colonial empire in the Horn of Africa.^[3] By the end of the 19th century, European powers had carved up almost all of Africa after the Berlin Conference; only Ethiopia and Liberia still maintained their independence.^[4] Adwa became a pre-eminent symbol of pan-Africanism and secured Ethiopian sovereignty until the Second Italo-Ethiopian War forty years later.^[5]

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^ Abdussamad H. Ahmad and Richard Pankhurst (1998). Adwa Victory Centenary Conference, 26 February – 2 March 1996. Addis Ababa University. pp. 158–62.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Woldeyes, Yirga Gelaw (29 February 2020). "The battle of Adwa: an Ethiopian victory that ran against the current of colonialism". The Conversation. Archived from the original on 4 June 2021. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
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[3] Woldeyes, Yirga Gelaw (29 February 2020). "The battle of Adwa: an Ethiopian victory that ran against the current of colonialism". The Conversation. Archived from the original on 4 June 2021. Retrieved 4 June 2021.

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