| Battle of Segheneyti | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of Italo-Ethiopian War of 1887–1889 | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Kingdom of Italy |
 Ethiopian Empire | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
_crowned.svg){kind=small} Captain Tullio Cornacchia †[1] | Dejazmatch Debeb Araya[2][3] | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 700-800[4] | Thousands | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
|
200-250 or 300[5] (All Italian officers) | Unknown | ||||||
The Battle of Segheneyti,[6] or Saganèiti, was a small clash fought on August 8, 1888[6] between the troops of the Kingdom of Italy and Abyssinian irregulars towards the end of the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1887-1889. The battle resulted in the destruction of Italian attachment that was deployed to Segheneyti.[7]
- ^ Comaron, Giorgia. Tracce di pittura etiopica nelle pubblicazioni ed esposizioni dell'Italia colonialista: spunti di riflessione (in Italian). Università degli Studi di Padova. p. 81.
- ^ CAULK, R. — 1984 "Bad Men of the Borders: ‘Shum' and ‘Shifta' in Northern Ethiopia in the Nineteenth Century", The Journal of African Historical Studies 2 (17): 201-227.
- ^ NEGASH, T. — 1984 "Resistance and Collaboration in Eritrea", in S. RUBENSON (ed.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference of Ethiopian Studies (Addis Ababa: Institute of Ethiopian Studies; East Lansing: African Studies Center, Michigan State University): 315-325.
- ^ BATTAGLIA, R. — 1958 La prima guerra d'Africa (Torino: Einaudi): 342-345
- ^ (BATTAGLIA 1958: 342-345)
- ^ a b See. in Raffaele Ruggeri, "The Italian Colonial Wars", EMI, Mornico Losana, 2003.
- ^ G. N. Sanderson (1969). "Conflict and Co-Operation Between Ethiopia and the Mahdist State, 1884-1898". Sudan Notes and Records. 50 (1). University of Khartoum: 27.