Siege of Mekelle

Siege of Mekelle
Part of the First Italo-Ethiopian War

Ethiopian troops attacking the besieged Italians
Date7–21 January 1896
Location
Mek'ele, Ethiopia
Result Ethiopian victory
Belligerents
 Italy  Ethiopia
Commanders and leaders
Giuseppe Galliano Menelik II
Strength
1,306 (1,114 Askari & 192 Italians)
2 mountain guns		 27,000
Casualties and losses
100 killed
78 wounded		 ~250 killed

The siege of Mekelle, sometimes known as the battle of Mekelle, took place in January 1896 during the First Italo-Ethiopian War. Italian forces surrendered a partially completed fort at Mekelle, a city in the northern Tigray Region of Ethiopia which they had occupied since 1895, to Ethiopian forces.

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