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Siege of Mekele

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Mekele · Enda Yesus

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Menelik II's army forced the surrender of Major Galliano's Italian garrison at Enda Yesus on the eve of Adwa.

Belligerents2

Kingdom of Italy
Ethiopian Empire

ON THE MAPEthiopian Empire (Menelik II Expansion)

Conflict graph

PART OFItalian-Ethiopian Wars

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Siege of Mekele (1896). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/siege-of-mekele · Sources & methodology