Battle of Dogali

Battle of Dogali
Part of the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1887–1889

The battle of Dogali by Michele Cammarano
Date26 January 1887
Location
Dogali, near Massawa, Eritrea
Result Ethiopian victory
Belligerents
 Italy  Ethiopia
Commanders and leaders
Kingdom of Italy Tommaso De Cristoforis † Ethiopian Empire Ras Alula Engida
Strength
~550 infantry 15,000[1]
Casualties and losses
430 killed[2]
80 wounded[2]		 730[3]
or
1,071 killed[4]
Monument in Rome to the Italian soldiers killed in Dogali
Monument in Dogali

The Battle of Dogali was fought on 26 January 1887 between Italy and Ethiopia in Dogali near Massawa, in present-day Eritrea.

  1. ^ Clodfelter, Micheal (24 April 2017). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492–2015, 4th ed. ISBN 9781476625850.
  2. ^ a b Clodfelter, Micheal (2017). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures (4th ed.). McFarland. p. 202.
  3. ^ Erlich (1973), p. 191.
  4. ^ Affinati, Riccardo (10 December 2017). Le battaglie più crudeli della storia. ISBN 9788893273008.