Major conflict1591

Battle of Tondibi

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Tondibi · near Gao · Mali

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

On 13 March 1591 the gun-armed Saadian expedition under Judar Pasha shattered the much larger Songhai army of Askia Ishaq II, leading to the collapse of the Songhai Empire and the end of the great Sahelian states.

Belligerents2

Saadi Sultanate of Morocco
Songhai Empire

ON THE MAPSonghai Empire

Conflict graph

PART OFSaadian Invasion of Songhai

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Tondibi
Wikipedia: Moroccan invasion of the Songhai Empire
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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