Part of the Ethiopian–Adal war and Somali-Portuguese conflicts
Date
August, 1542
Location
Hill of the Jews, Ethiopia
Result
Portuguese victory
Belligerents
Portuguese Empire
Adal Sultanate
Commanders and leaders
Cristóvão da Gama
Unknown
Strength
Unknown
Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown
Unknown
v
t
e
Ethiopian–Adal War
Shimbra Kure
Antukyah
Zari
Amba Sel
Bali
Saraye
Sahart
Baçente
Jarte
Hill of the Jews
Wofla
Wayna Daga
v
t
e
Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1538–1560)
1st Diu
Suakin
El Tor
Suez
Jeddah
Jarte
Wofla
Wayna Daga
Aden
Bab el Mandeb
Qatif
Ottoman campaign against Hormuz
Muscat
Hormuz
Velez
Strait of Hormuz
Oman Gulf
2nd Diu
Mocha
Bahrain
Kamaran
The Battle of the Hill of the Jews (named by Miguel de Castanhoso for a community of Beta Israel who lived there[1]) was fought in Ethiopia in August 1542 between the Portuguese forces of Cristóvão da Gama and the Adal Sultanate. The Portuguese won the battle, capturing many horses that they could have used to exploit their victory in the previous battle of Jarte.
The benefits of this victory were short-lived, for within the month da Gama was captured and slain in Wofla by Ahmed Ibn Ibrahim even before his soldiers escorting the captured animals could reach the Portuguese encampment at Lake Ashenge.
The location of this battle is not known. Whiteway has argued that this place is identical with Amba Geshen, located far to the south of the Portuguese camp.[2] More recently, however, C.F. Beckingham has argued that the battle took place in the eastern Semien Mountains near the left bank of the Tekezé River.[3]
^R.S. Whiteway, editor and translator, The Portuguese Expedition to Abyssinia in 1441-1543, 1902. (Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus Reprint, 1967), p. 56
^Whiteway, Portuguese Expedition, pp. lvii-lxii
^Beckingham, "A Note on the topography of Ahmad Gragn's campaigns in 1542", Journal of Semitic Studies, 4 (1959), pp. 362-373
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