Second Battle of Agordat

Second Battle of Agordat
Part of the Mahdist War
Colonel Giuseppe Arimondi
Date 21 December 1893 Location Agordat, Eritrea Result Colonial Italian victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Italy	Mahdist Sudan
Commanders and leaders
Giuseppe Arimondi	Emir Ahmed Ali (KIA)
Strength
Italian troops: 42 Italian officers 23–33 Italian of other rank 2,318 Askari troops 8 mountain guns	Mahdi troops: 10,000–12,000 Mahdists 6,000 armed with rifles
Casualties and losses
108 killed 124 wounded	1,000+ killed hundreds wounded 180 men, 700 rifles and 72 flags captured

The Second Battle of Agordat was fought in late December 1893, between Italian colonial troops and Mahdists from the Sudan. Emir Ahmed Ali campaigned against the Italian forces in eastern Sudan and led about 10–12,000 men east from Kassala. This force encountered 2,400 Italians and their Eritrean askaris at Agordat, west of Asmara, commanded by Colonel Arimondi. Over 1,000 Dervishes, including the Emir, were killed in severe fighting. The outcome of the battle constituted:

"...the first decisive victory yet won by Europeans against the Sudanese revolutionaries,..."

A year later, Italian colonial forces seized Kassala.

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