First Italo-Ethiopian War

Part of

Scramble for Africa

Date

December 15th, 1894 - October 23rd, 1896

Location

Eritreaball,

Ethiopiaball

Result

Ethiopian Victory

Belligerents
Kingdom of Italyball Italian Eritreaball Supported By: UKball	Ethiopian Empireball Eritrean rebels Supported By: Russian Empireball French Third Republicball

Strength
18,000-25,000	196,000 80-100,000 with firearms

Casualties
15,000 dead	10,000 dead

Notes
Not a good day for Italy

The First Italo-Ethiopian War was an armed conflict fought between the

Kingdom of Italyball and the

Ethiopian Empireball for control over East Africa. The war broke out after Ethiopian troops attacked an Italian garrison and Italy sent troops to crush them. During the war,

Russian Empireball supported Ethiopiaball because they were both

Orthodox Christians and Ethiopia had a fighting chance. Ethiopiaball won and became the first nation to successfully resist European colonial invasion and remained independent until 1936 when it was conquered in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.

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