World-changing1940 – 1941 · 1 year

East African Campaign (World War II)

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Kassala · Keren · Amba Alagi · Addis Ababa · Gondar

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Anglo-Commonwealth–Ethiopian Patriot offensive that destroyed Italian East Africa in less than a year.

Belligerents5

Kingdom of Italy
United Kingdom
Ethiopian Empire
Free France
South Africa

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1939)Ethiopian Empire

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 5

Italian conquest of British Somaliland1940
Gideon Force / Gojjam campaign1940–41
Battle of Amba Alagi (1941)1941
Battle of Gondar1941
Battle of Keren1941

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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