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    The Battle of Coatit was fought on 13 January 1895 between Italy and Ethiopian proxies led by Tigrayan warlord Ras Mengesha Yohannes in what is now Eritrea...
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    units. In January 1895 began the battle of Coatit between Italian troops and those from Ras Mangascià, governor of Tigray, who was defeated and forced...
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    Battle of Coatit the day before. To forestall an Italian invasion of the Ethiopian province of Tigray led by general Oreste Baratieri, the ruler of Tigray...
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    1895, Baratieri's army went on to defeat Ras Mengesha Yohannes in the Battle of Coatit, forcing Mengesha to retreat further south. By late 1895, Italian forces...
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    Operational Corps under General Oreste Baratieri, fighting the Battle of Kassala and the Battle of Coatit. Arimondi urged rapid and daring offensive manoeuvres...
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  • January 1895 Battle of Coatit 3 October 1935 – May 1936 Second Italo-Ethiopian War 3 October 1935 – December 1935 De Bono's invasion of Abyssinia 10 June...
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    Ras Mengesha Yohannes (category Sons of emperors)
    Italians at the Battle of Coatit, where his force was rebuffed. Another skirmish led by Fitawrari Gebeyehu, the vanguard commander of Menelik forces on...
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  • Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also List of Napoleonic Battles Battles of the...
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    Askari (category Military history of Africa)
    Battle of Coatit, First Italo–Ethiopian War, Italian-Turkish War, Second Italo-Abyssinian War and in the World War II East African Campaign. Many of the...
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    Battle of Agordat - (Mahdist War) Battle of Kassala - (Mahdist War) Battle of Coatit - (First Ethiopian War) About six thousand Eritrean Ascaris, serving...
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    First Italo-Ethiopian War (category Invasions of Ethiopia)
    Italian Eritrea achieving initial successes against Tigrayan warlords at Coatit, Senafe and Debra Ailà, until they were reinforced by a large Ethiopian...
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    Italo-Ethiopia War 1 March 1896 Battle of Adwa 7 December 1895 Battle of Amba Alagi 13 January 1895 Battle of Coatit 3 October 1935 – May 1936 Second...
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    Bahta Hagos (category Year of birth unknown)
    army would lose at the Battle of Coatit, but Menelik would soon commit his forces, and destroy the Italians at the Battle of Adwa, ending their colonial...
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    Constitution. 1895 – First Italo-Ethiopian War: The war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory. 1898 – Émile Zola's J'accuse…...
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  • 13 – First Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Coatit – Italian forces defeat the Ethiopians. February 20 The gold reserve of the U.S. Treasury is saved when...
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    Pietro Toselli (category People from the Province of Cuneo)
    forces of Batha Agos, who were besieging the Italian fort at Halai. On the 13 January 1895, he commanded the 4th Askari Battalion at the Battle of Coatit under...
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    launching a pre-emptive attack on Italian Eritrea had failed in the battles of Coatit and Senafe in January 1895. In a counter-attack, Italian troops had...
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    Oreste Baratieri (category Deputies of Legislature XIII of the Kingdom of Italy)
    during the Expedition of the Thousand from 1860 to 1861. Following the unification of Italy, Baratieri did fight in the Battle of Mentana (1867) then he...
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    world war. 1557–1624 Ottoman conquest of Habesh 1895–1896 First Italo-Ethiopia War 13 January 1895 Battle of Coatit 3 October 1935 – May 1936 Second Italo-Abyssinian...
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    July 1894, the Battle of Halai on 19 December 1894, or the Battle of Coatit on 13 and 14 January 1895; in Italian Somaliland, the Battle of Lafoole on 25...
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  • 1895 in Italy (category Years of the 19th century in Italy)
    Battle of Coatit between Italy and Ethiopian proxies led by Tigrian warlord Ras Mengesha Yohannes in what is now Eritrea. It was the opening battle of...
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  • Gherardo Pantano (category Italian military personnel of the First Italo-Ethiopian War)
    indigeni of the Royal Corps of Eritrean Colonial Troops (ascari) as a sub-lieutenant. He fought in the battles of Coatit, Senafe, Debra Ailà, Mai Merèt...
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    Coatit was a torpedo cruiser of the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) built in the late 1890s. She was the second and final member of the Agordat class...
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    Matteo Albertone (category Italian military personnel of the First Italo-Ethiopian War)
    composed by ascari under general Arimondi, won the victory at Coatit, the opening engagement of the war. The Italian then invaded Tigray, while Menelik II...
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  • Click on headers to sort columns. List of cruisers List of cruisers of World War II Jordan & Caresse 2019, p. 49. Jordan & Caresse 2019, p. 190. Jordan...
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    Aretusa Caprera Calatafimi Agordat class Agordat (1899) - Stricken 1923 Coatit (1899) - Stricken 1920, BU Aquila-class Aquila Sparviero Nibbio Falco Taranto...
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    Corps of Colonial Troops that year. Expanded to eight battalions, the Eritrean Ascaris fought with distinction at Serobeti, Agordat, Kassala, Coatit and...
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    Italian destroyer Garibaldino (category Italo-Turkish War naval ships of Italy)
    enter the port of Tripoli on the coast of Ottoman Tripolitania, where she demanded the port's surrender. Covered by the torpedo cruiser Coatit, she and Lanciere...
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    Enrico Toti (category Recipients of the Gold Medal of Military Valor)
    cruiser Coatit. In 1904 he was involved in clashes on the Red Sea against the pirates who infested the sea in front of the Italian colony of Eritrea....
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    were being built, a pair of smaller vessels—the Folgore class—were ordered. The final class, which comprised Agordat and Coatit, was built in the late 1890s...
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