Significant1940 – 1941 · 1 year

Gideon Force / Gojjam campaign

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Gojjam · Debre Markos · Addis Ababa

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Orde Wingate's small Gideon Force escorted Haile Selassie back from Khartoum and unhinged the Italian position in Gojjam.

Belligerents4

United Kingdom
Ethiopian Empire
Sudan
Kingdom of Italy

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1939)Ethiopian Empire

Conflict graph

PART OFEast African Campaign (World War II)

Sources

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