The Battle of Embabo was fought 6 June, 1882 between the Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia and Tekle Haymanot. The Gojjame forces under Negus Tekle Haymanot were defeated. This is one of the three battles (along with Chelenqo and Adwa) which Donald Donham lists that led to Shewan supremacy over the rest of Ethiopia.Donald Donham, "Old Abyssinia and the new Ethiopian empire: themes in social history" in The Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia (Oxford: James Currey, 2002), p. 23