Major conflict1868

Battle of Magdala

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Magdala · Aroge

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Napier's punitive expedition stormed Tewodros II's fortress of Magdala; the emperor shot himself rather than surrender.

Belligerents2

United Kingdom
Ethiopian Empire

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1858)Ethiopian Empire (Menelik II Expansion)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Magdala (1868). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-magdala · Sources & methodology