Major conflict1867 – 1868 · 1 year

British Expedition to Abyssinia

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Zula · Senafe · Magdala

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Robert Napier's 1867–68 expedition from Annesley Bay to Magdala to free European hostages held by Emperor Tewodros II.

Belligerents2

United Kingdom
Ethiopian Empire

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

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 1

Battle of Arogi1868

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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