A battle called Kufit between Ethiopian forces and Mahdist Sudanese forces.
Battle of Kufit
Part of the Mahdist War
Date
22–23 September 1885
Location
Kufit, Hamasien, Eritrea (between Kassala and Keren)
Result
Ethiopian victory
Belligerents
Ethiopian Empire
Mahdist Sudan
Commanders and leaders
Ras Alula (WIA)
Osman Digna
Strength
~10,000 men[1]
~10,000 men[1]
Casualties and losses
1,500 killed[2]
5,050 killed[2]
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Mahdist War
Mahdist uprising (1881–1885)
Aba
Shaykan
El Teb
Tamai
Khartoum
Abu Klea
Abu Kru
Kirbekan
Tofrek
Ginnis
British-Egyptian expeditions (1885–1889)
Emin Pasha Expedition
Dufile
Suakin
Toski
Ethiopian campaigns (1885–1889)
Kufit
Guté Dili
Gallabat
Italian campaigns (1890–1894)
1st Agordat
Serobeti
2nd Agordat
Kassala
British-Egyptian reconquest (1896–1899)
Ferkeh
Rejaf
Abu Hamed
Atbara
Omdurman
Umm Diwaykarat
The Battle of Kufit was a military engagement fought on 22–23 September 1885, between the Mahdist Sudanese and Ethiopian forces. This fighting resulted in a crushing defeat for the Mahdists and a victory for the Ethiopians led by Ras Alula.[2][3][4]
^ abJ. Stapleton, Timothy (7 November 2016). Encyclopedia of African Colonial Conflicts. p. 19. ISBN 9781598848373. Ras Alula led a 10,00-strong Ethiopian army that defeated a Mahdist force of about the same size, led by Osman Digna
^ abcElrich, Haggai (1996). Ras Alula And The Scramble For Africa. Red Sea Press. pp. 68–70. ISBN 9781569020296.
^David H. Shinn, Thomas P. Ofcansky (March 29, 2004). Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia (Historical Dictionaries of Africa). Scarecrow Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-0810849105.
^Reginald Wingate, Sir Francis (1891). Mahdiism and the Egyptian Sudan: Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Mahdiism and of Subsequent Events in Sudan to the Present Time. Macmillan and Company. p. 251.
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