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. The Ethiopian forces defeated the Italian invading force on Sunday 1 March 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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