Battle of Wayna Daga
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The Battle of Wayna Daga was a large-scale battle between the Ethiopian forces and the Portuguese Empire and the forces of the Adal Sultanate and the Ottoman Empire in the east of Lake Tana in Ethiopi
Geography around Lake Tana.
Portuguese depiction of an Ethiopian foot-soldier and his wife.
Cristóvão da Gama
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Cristóvão da Gama, anglicised as Christopher da Gama, was a Portuguese military commander who led an army of 400 musketeers on a crusade in Ethiopia against the Muslim Adal army of Ahmad ibn Ibrahim a
Battle of Wayna Daga
…the Portuguese expeditionary force, killing most of its men, capturing practically all of the firearms they had, and capturing and killing its leader, Cristóvão da Gama. The Imam enjoyed a decisive victory over his greatest foe; armies in the Horn of Africa melted away with the death of their leaders. He then reduced…
Christopher da gama
Engraving of Cristovão da Gama chasing the "usurper" in Abyssinia
A contemporary 20th century depiction of Cristóvão da Gama's execution