Editing Battle of Adwa (section)

===Ethiopian forces===

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* [[Shewa]]; ''Negus Negasti'' Menelik II: 25,000 rifles / 3,000 horses / 32 guns<ref name=FTTt>{{cite book|title=Armies of the Adowa Campaign 1896 |first=Sean |last=McLachlan |year=2011 |page= 42|place=Osprey Publishing}}</ref>
* [[Semien province|Semien]]; ''Itaghiè'' [[Taytu Betul|Taytu]]: 3,000 rifles / 600 horses / 4 guns<ref name=FTTt/>
* [[Gojjam]]; ''Negus'' [[Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam|Tekle Haymanot]]: 5,000 rifles<ref name=FTTt/>
* [[Hararghe|Harar]]; ''Ras'' Makonnen: 15,000 rifles<ref name=FTTt/>
* [[Tigray province|Tigray]]; ''Ras'' [[Ras Mengesha Yohannes|Mengesha Yohannes]] and [[Ras Alula|''Ras'' Alula]]: 12,000 rifles / 6 guns<ref name=FTTt/>
* [[Wollo]]; ''Ras'' [[Mikael of Wollo|Mikael]]: 6,000 rifles / 5,000 horses<ref name=FTTt/>
* [[Begemder|Gondar]]; ''Ras'' [[Welle Betul|Olié]]: 8,000 rifles<ref name=FTTt/>
* [[Lasta]]; ''Wagshum'' Guangul: 6,000 rifles<ref name=FTTt/>
* In addition there were ~20,000 spearmen and swordsmen as well as an unknown number of armed peasants.<ref name=FTTt/>

Estimates for the Ethiopian forces under Menelik range from a low of 73,000 to a high of over 100,000 outnumbering the Italians by an estimated five times.<ref>{{cite book|first=Sean|last=Mclachlan|page=22|title=Armies of the Adowa Campaign 1896|date=20 September 2011 |publisher=Bloomsbury USA |isbn=978-1-84908-457-4}}</ref><ref>[[Richard K. P. Pankhurst|Pankhurst]] has published one collection of these estimates, ''Economic History of Ethiopia'' (Addis Ababa: Haile Selassie University, 1968), pp. 555–57. ''See also ''Uhlig, Siegbert, ed. ''[[Encyclopaedia Aethiopica]]: A–C''. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003, p. 108.</ref> The forces were divided among Emperor Menelik, Empress Taytu Betul, ''[[Ethiopian aristocratic and court titles|Ras]]'' [[Welle Betul]], ''Ras'' [[Mengesha Atikem]], ''Ras'' Mengesha Yohannes, ''Ras'' [[Ras Alula|Alula Engida (Abba Nega)]], ''Ras'' [[Mikael of Wollo]], ''Ras'' Makonnen Wolde Mikael, ''Fitawrari'' [[Habte Giyorgis Dinagde|Habte Giyorgis]], ''Fitawrari'' [[Fitawrari Gebeyehu|Gebeyyehu]], and ''[[Ethiopian aristocratic and religious titles|Negus]]'' Tekle Haymanot Tessemma. Pétridès (as well as [[Richard K. P. Pankhurst|Pankhurst]], with slight variations) break the troop numbers down (over 100,000 by their estimates) as follows: 35,000 infantry (25,000 riflemen and 10,000 spearmen) and 8,000 cavalry under Emperor Menelik; 5,000 infantry under Empress Taytu; 8,000 infantry (6,000 riflemen and 2,000 spearmen) under Ras Wale; 8,000 infantry (5,000 riflemen and 3,000 spearmen) under Ras Mengesha Atikem, 12,000 riflemen, 5,000 spearmen, and 3,000 cavalry under Ras Mengesha Yohannes and Ras Alula Engida; 6,000 riflemen, 5,000 spearmen, and 5,000 [[Oromo people|Oromo]] cavalry under Ras Mikael of Wollo; 15,000 riflemen under Ras Makonnen; 8,000 infantry under ''Fitawrari'' Gebeyyehu Gora; 5,000 riflemen, 5,000 spearmen, and 3,000 cavalry under ''Negus'' Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam.<ref>von Uhlig, ''Encyclopedia'', p. 109.</ref> In addition, the armies were followed by a similar number of [[camp follower]]s who supplied the army, as had been done for centuries.<ref name="Casualties">Uhlig, Siegbert, ed. ''[[Encyclopaedia Aethiopica]]: A–C'' (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003), p. 108.</ref> Most of the army consisted of riflemen, a significant percentage of whom were in Menelik's reserve; however, there were also a significant number of cavalry and infantry only armed with [[lance]]s (those with lances were referred to as "lancer servants").<ref name="Casualties"/><ref name="Caulk">Richard Caulk, ''"Between the Jaws of Hyenas": A Diplomatic History of Ethiopia (1876–1896)'', p. 563</ref><ref>Raymond Jonas, "The Battle of Adwa" (Harvard University Press, 2011), pp. 648.</ref>
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===Wollo cavalry===
This section seems to duplicate part of the "Battle" section, about Dabormida's force being wiped out while retreating, but with little detail and no clear reference:
In a recent Amharic publication authored by Andargachew Tsige, an important figure in Ethiopian politics, he references the book "The Battle of Adwa" by Raymond Jonas, and wrote that a 70,000{{dubious|date=February 2021}} strong army of Muslim horse men from Wollo (Negus Mikael's cavalry) engaged Italian advancing forces in fierce battles  inflicting heavy damage.{{original research inline|date=November 2023}}-->