Battle of Debra Ailà

Battle of Debra Ailà
	Part of First Italo-Ethiopian War
	; Depiction of the battle in L'Illustrazione Italiana
Date	October 9, 1895
Location	Debra Ailà, Tigray, Abyssinia
Result	Italian victory
Belligerents
Italy Italian Eritrea;	Ethiopia Tigray;
Commanders and leaders
Giuseppe Arimondi; Giovanni Ameglio	Mengesha Yohannes; Ras Alula
Strength
1 Italian battalion; 1 Askari battalion	1,300 men
Casualties and losses
11 dead Askari, about 30 wounded	20 dead, several wounded, some prisoners

The Battle of Debra Ailà (Debre Ailat) took place during the First Italo-Ethiopian War on October 9, 1895, where under the combined efforts of Italian colonial troops and Askari troops defeated the rearguard of the Tigrayan army, which had withdrawn from Tigray's capital Mek'ele.