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There are years in history that, more than others, are used as symbols to indicate a ...
On 28th June 1914 the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz ...
The declaration of war against Serbia did not leave other European States indifferent ...
While the leading European states announced their declarations of war, Italy placed ...
While Italy maintained its neutral position, in the rest of Europe the war raged on ...
The first weeks of the war did not follow the predictions that were made by the ...
The Italian government, guided by the astute diplomacy of its Minister for Foreign ...
Italy's entry into the war was one of the key moments of the country's history. ...
Chief of Staff Luigi Cadorna, having learnt of the Treaty of London, accepted the ...
When fighting began, Cadorna had under his command some 400,000 soldiers in the plains of
The zone of Cadore and of the eastern Dolomites was included in the sector that was ...
If the push towards east in the sector of the Fourth Army did not practically gain any ...
The most western sector, that of Valtellina which descended as far as the Asiago and ...
Among all the mountain passes on the Alps that used to lead to the Austro-Hungarian ...
More than in other sectors of the front, the initial difficulties in Carnia were ...
A month after the official start of the war, on 23rd June 1915 General Cadorna launched ...
The first conference between the allies was held in Chantilly in France on the day when ...
The first two battles of the Isonzo did not achieve the results that were expected and ...
After the frightening losses that were suffered during the Third Battle of the Isonzo, ...
Winter momentarily interrupted the vast operations on the front of the Isonzo. The ...
While the Fifth Battle on the Isonzo front came to an end, on the high mountains along ...
During the winter months of 1916 Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, the Head of the ...
While General Conrad was preparing his great action on the Asiago plateau, the war went ...
Despite delays due to the snow that fell till the end of spring and information that ...
At the start of June Cadorna realized that the advance by the Austro-Hungarian army ...
While the Strafexpedition was causing alarm in the mountains at the Asiago plateau, the ...
In the meantime tens of kilometres further to the north of Mount San Michele, ...
After the danger that was posed by the Strafexpedition ended and after having saved his ...
With the conquest of Mount Sabotino in the north east and of Mount San Michele in the ...
Despite the victory that was achieved in the Sixth Battle of the Isonzo, Luigi Cadorna ...
In mid-September the Italian Supreme Command ordered that a new offensive should get ...
A few days after the end of the Seventh Battle of the Isonzo, the Supreme Command ...
While the Seventh Battle of the Isonzo was coming to an end, on the front on the Asiago ...
In the days that followed the Eighth Battle of the Isonzo the Russian prisoners and the ...
On 21st November 1916 Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary died at the age of 86 ...
The winter of 1917 was one of the coldest of the whole century and the abundant ...
Even within the Triple Agreement there were some changes in the balance of power in the ...
While the allies of the Triple Agreement (with the exclusion of Russia which was ...
After the several diplomatic meetings that were held between January and April 1917, ...
While Capello was leading his offensive to the northeast of Gorizia, the Duke of Aosta ...
After the unsuccessful operation on the Timavo, the Supreme Command declared that the ...
In those days of spring the plans of the Italian army envisaged not only the advance on ...
At the start of August Luigi Cadorna prepared a new offensive on the Isonzo which, in ...
What was particularly surprising in the Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo was the ease with ...
After the Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo matters on the Isonzo front changed ...
With the arrival of autumn Luigi Cadorna was convinced that there would be no other ...
While in the valley of Caporetto the Austro-Hungarians, with the help of the Germans, ...
To the great surprise of all the soldiers of the Second Army, at 2.00 in the morning of ...
On the dawn of 24th October 1917 Luigi Cadorna, in the headquarters of the Supreme ...
The day before the famous bulletin of 28th October 1917, the Supreme Command abandoned ...
On reaching Treviso, the Italian Supreme Command ordered its men to cross the ...
At the military level, the withdrawal from the Isonzo in Piave was devastating as can ...
The withdrawal of the Italian army from the front on the Isonzo, from Zona Carnia and ...
After the first week of November the greater part of the army found itself behind the ...
While along the course of the Piave all attempts at a breakthrough by the Austro-German ...
The last two months of 1917 were undoubtedly the hardest period of the whole war for ...
While in Rome politicians were discussing the Fourteen Points of Wilson, the military ...
With the arrival of spring, the First World War resumed in the whole of Europe. ...
Four days after what was originally envisaged, at three in the morning of 15th June the ...
In the summer of 1918 the First World War took a very favourable turn for the allies of ...
While preparations for the October offensive were in hand on the right bank of the ...
The offensive on the Piave started officially at three in the morning of 24th October 1918
The heavy rains that lashed Veneto in October 1918 forced Armando Diaz to change his ...
On the evening of 24th October Emperor Charles I was informed that resistance by the ...
In the three days that divided the end of the Final Battle and the signing of the ...
Further to the east on the evening of 02nd November, after a battle near the river Meduna...
On 31st October 1918 the Austro-Hungarian generals and Italian generals met at Villa ...
On 04th November at 3.00 pm all war operations ceased and the end of the Great War was ...
