Mulugeta Yeggazu

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Ras Mulugeta Yeggazu, (killed 27 February 1936) was Minister of War and Imperial Fitawrari, Commander of the Mahel Sefari (Central Army) of the Ethiopian Army during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

He fought as a young warrior in the Battle of Adwa, and was later appointed Imperial Fitawrari to replace the disgraced Birru Wolde Gabriel. He was killed by Oromo shifta during the retreat of his defeated army from Amba Aradam.

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  • Mockler, Anthony, Haile Selassie's War, New York: Olive Branch Press, 2003. ISBN 1566564735

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