Draft:Italian conquest of the Horn of Africa

Italian conquest of the Horn of Africa
Part of the interwar period
The March of the Iron Will of the Italian colonial soldiers on Addis Ababa
Date 1924–1940 Location Horn of Africa Result Italian victory and hegemony over the entire Horn of Africa until 1941
Combatants
Italy Italian East Africa (After May 9, 1936)	Sultanate of Hobyo Majeerteen Sultanate Ethiopian Empire British Empire ... and more
Commanders and leaders
Benito Mussolini Pietro Badoglio Rodolfo Graziani Emilio De Bono	Haile Selassie I  Desta Damtew  Ali Yusuf Kenadid / Hassan Barsane † Osman Mohamoud # Archibald Wavell ... and more
Strength
Before 1927: 12,000 men, 135 artillery pieces, 3 aircraft 1935–1937: 500,000–685,000 men, 599–800 tanks, 2,000 artillery pieces, 595 aircraft 1940 invasion: 24,000 Italian and colonial troops During resistance: c. 42,000 men	Estimates vary

Sources

• Del Boca, Angelo (1969). The Ethiopian War 1935–1941 (Eng. trans. ed.). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-14217-3.
• Stapleton, Timothy (2018). Africa: War and Conflict in the Twentieth Century. Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge. ISBN 9781351104661.
• Barker, A. J. (1971). Rape of Ethiopia, 1936. New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN 978-0-345-02462-6.