Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Agordat (Soudan Campaigns).

Fought December 21, 1893, between 2,200 Italians, and native troops, under General Arimondi, and 11,500 Mahdists under Ahmed Ali, who had invaded Italian territory. The Mahdists were routed with a loss of about 3,000 men. The Italians lost 13, and 225 natives killed and wounded.