Battle of Gura
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The Battle of Gura was fought on 7–10 March 1876 between the Ethiopian Empire and the Khedivate of Egypt near the town of Gura in Eritrea. It was the second and decisive major battle of the Ethiopian–
Depiction of the Battle of Gura
Egyptian–Ethiopian War
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The Egyptian–Ethiopian War was a war between the Ethiopian Empire and the Khedivate of Egypt, an autonomous tributary state of the Ottoman Empire, from 1874 to 1876. The conflict resulted in victory f
Battle of Gura
…March 1876 between the Ethiopian Empire and the Khedivate of Egypt near the town of Gura in Eritrea. It was the second and decisive major battle of the Ethiopian–Egyptian War. In December 1875, a local ruler of Hamasien, Woldemichael Solomon, submitted to the Egyptians at Massawa. This allowed the Egyptians to occupy the…
Ethiopian painting of the battle of Gundet, c. 1880
The battlefield of Gura
Emperor Yohannes IV, 1884