2 East African Infantry brigades Ethiopian Patriots Kenya Armoured Car Regiment South African Light Armoured Detachment[1]
Casualties and losses
Italian: 407 killed (November 1941), 1,289 killed since June 1940 Ascari: 3,700 killed June–November 1941[2][page needed] Sick and wounded: 8,400 (Italian and Askari)[3] 22,000 prisoners (Italian and Askari) 1 aircraft[4]
Final assault: 32 killed 182 wounded 6 missing 15 aircraft[4]
Gondar
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Gondar, city and district (woreda), in the Semien Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region, north of Tana Lake
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East African campaign of World War II
Sudan
British Somaliland (1940)
Tug Argan
French Somaliland
Convoy BN 7
Agordat
British Somaliland (1941)
Keren
Saïo
Amba Alagi
Culqualber
Gondar
Guerrilla war
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Arbegnoch
Red Sea Flotilla
Desert Air Force
East Indies Station
East Africa Force
Order of battle
The Battle of Gondar or Capture of Gondar was the last stand of the Italian forces in Italian East Africa during the Second World War. The battle took place in November 1941, during the East African Campaign. Gondar was the main town of Amhara in the mountains north of Lake Tana in Ethiopia, at an elevation of 7,000 ft (2,100 m) and had an Italian garrison of 40,000 men, commanded by Generale Guglielmo Nasi.
^Playfair 2004, p. 320.
^Angelo Del Boca, Gli italiani in Africa Orientale - 3. La caduta dell'Impero. 1,289 Italian officers and soldiers were killed in the Gondar sector from June 1940 to the end of the campaign, 407 of whom in November 1941.
history ofGondar, a city in Amhara Region of Ethiopia, and previously served as the capital of the Ethiopian Empire from 1632 (at the beginning of Gondarine...
forces and British Commonwealth forces. Along with the BattleofGondar, it marked the end of conventional warfare in the East Africa Campaign. In 1941...
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attack them. The twin communities of Gallabat and Metemma were located on the trade route from the Nile to Gondar, the old Imperial capital; the Mahdists...
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received the surrender of the city.: 421–422 The remnants of the Italian forces in the AOI surrendered after the BattleofGondar in November 1941, except...
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German advance in Crete. The Battle ofGondar ends with its capture by Allied forces, completing the elimination of the Italian Empire in East Africa....
were overwhelmed at the Battleof Keren, and the Italian defence started to crumble with a final defeat in the BattleofGondar. When addressing the Italian...
in 1940 and early 1941. The remnants of the Italian forces in the region surrendered after the BattleofGondar in November 1941, except for small groups...
ships, with America not yet at war, to sail to Suez. Following the BattleofGondar in November 1941, Italian resistance in East Africa virtually ended...
Ethiopia in 1940 and early 1941. The bulk of the Italian forces still in the colony surrendered after the BattleofGondar in November 1941, but small groups...
1873) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1868 to 1871. After being crowned, he linked himself to the last independent emperors of the Gondar line through his...
war in Ethiopia after the Allied victory at the BattleofGondar in November 1941, which marked the end of the last regular Italian forces active in the...
garrisons continued to fight—the last surrendered only following the BattleofGondar in November 1941. Until this time the partly Rhodesian-commanded Nigeria...
During the BattleofGondar distinguished himself a muntaz Unatù Endisciau who refusing to surrender to the British following the capitulation of the Debra...
four towns of the North Gondar, North Wollo and North Shewa zones. Further escalation erupted on 1 August between Fano and ENDF troops in Gondar, Debre Tabor...
the brutality that took place during the sack ofGondar: […] The road to Gondar, the former capital of Abyssinia, was now clear, and Abu Anga advanced...
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