Yaƙin Kassala

Yaƙin Kassala

Iri	faɗa
Bangare na	Yakin Mahdist
Kwanan watan	17 ga Yuli, 1894
Wuri	Kassala (en)
Participant (en)	Kingdom of Italy (en) Mahdist Sudan (en)

An yi Yaƙin Kassala a ranar 17 ga Yuli, 1894, tsakanin sojojin mulkin mallaka na Italiya da sojojin Mahdist Sudanese.

Gabatarwa

Gwamna Oreste Baratieri ya nemi kama Kassala, don hana hare-haren Mahdi a kan Eritrea. A watan Yulin shekara ta 1894, Baratieri ya ga lokacin da Kogin Atbarah ya fara tashi, kuma ya yi tafiya da ƙaramin rundunarsa ta " jami'an Italiya 56, NCOs 41 da sojoji 2510 da ke karkashin jagorancin Bukbashis 16" zuwa Kassala.

Yaƙi

An buga wani labarin kama Kassala a cikin The New York Times a ranar 20 ga Yuli, 1894:

"Roma, Yuli 19.- ...An ba da umarnin kai hari kan ayyukan ƙasa na Mahdists nan da nan kuma an yi gwagwarmaya sosai. Mahdists sun yi yaƙi sosai, amma a ƙarshe an kore su daga matsayinsu, suna barin daruruwan matattu da rauni a ciki da kuma game da intrenchments. Da yake ana bin su sosai, Mahdists suka warwatse a ƙarƙashin wuta mai ci gaba, kuma da yawa daga cikinsu a kokarin su tsere sun shiga cikin Kogin Adbara, suna fatan isa gefen."

Sakamakon haka

Italiyanci sun kama tutoci biyu da wasu bindigogi, ban da haka Italiyanci suka 'yantar da mutanen da aka kama, gami da "mazauna fari da yawa da kusan ɗari daga cikin ragowar tsohuwar sojojin Masar; har ma da yawa daga kabilun da ke kewaye. "

A ranar 23 ga watan Yulin Janar Oreste Baratieri ya tafi, ya bar garuruwan mutane dubu tare da bindigogi biyu a karkashin Colonel Turitto . Shekaru uku bayan haka, a cikin 1897, Italiyanci sun mayar da iko da Kassala ga Birtaniya, don samun amincewar duniya game da mulkin mallaka na Eritrea. Sojojin Italiya da ke Kassala sun koma Eritrea.