Kassa was victorious, Birru Goshu was captured and spent the next 14 years in chains.
Birru sought to avenge his father, Goshu Zewde, who had been killed in the Battle of Gur Amba two years before.
Confident of success, he left his fortress at Jebelli and in March 1854 Kassa Hailu engaged him and defeated him.
As Mordechai Abir notes, "His Gojjamites were no longer fighting the hated Galla who had continuously ravaged their country, but a successful Amhara leader who was able to crush the much-disliked Yejju dynasty.
[1] Birru's wife surrendered Jibelli (Jebelli is one of two ambas, or fortified mountaintops, in the valley of the Chamwaga River, and was frequently used as a stronghold by the rulers of Gojjam.