Major conflict1889

Battle of Gallabat

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Gallabat · Sudan-Ethiopia border

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

On 9-10 March 1889 Emperor Yohannes IV's Ethiopian army nearly destroyed a Mahdist force at Gallabat, but the emperor was fatally shot, shattering Ethiopian morale and ending major Ethiopian-Mahdist fighting.

Belligerents2

Ethiopian Empire (Yohannes IV)
Mahdist Sudan

Conflict graph

PART OFMahdist War

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Gallabat
Wikipedia: Yohannes IV
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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