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Battle of Dogali

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Dogali

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Ras Alula annihilated a 500-man Italian column under De Cristoforis at Dogali, an early checkpoint on Italy's path to Adwa.

Belligerents2

Kingdom of Italy
Ethiopian Empire

ON THE MAPEthiopian Empire (Menelik II Expansion)

Conflict graph

PART OFItalian conquest of Eritrea

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Dogali (1887). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-dogali · Sources & methodology