What the records say
- When
- 7 Dec 1895
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 12.99° N, 39.50° E
- Description
- 1895 battle
Battle of Amba Alagi (1895)
1895 battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War
The Battle of Amba Alagi was the first in a series of battles between the Italian General Baratieri and Ethiopia's Emperor Menelik during the First Italo-Ethiopian War. Amba Alagi was one of Baratieri's forward positions; it was under the command of Major Toselli with 2,000 Eritrean Askari.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of Amba Alagi, the first in a series of battles between General Oreste Baratieri and Emperor Menelik”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “les Italiens sont écrasés par les Éthiopiens à Amba Alagi, puis chassés de Mekele le 21 janvier 1896”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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