Map of the Trentino, part of "Italia Irredenta," unredeemed Italy: Venezia Tridentina (Trentino and Alto Adige)

Venezia Tridentina (Trentino and Alto Adige)

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Venezia Tridentina (Trentino and South Tyrol)

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Border between Trentino and Alto Adige

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Message dated December 14, 1917

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Friday, November 23, 1917

". . . by November 20th the Allied forces were in position to afford serious support to the Italian Army. On the 22nd and 23rd, heavy fighting took place on the Asiago plateau, as well as in the region of Monte Grappa and Monte Tomba; the Italian soldiers put up a splendid resistance everywhere.

On the 23rd, General Foch was able to leave Italy; the crisis was conjured. The first demoralization once over, the Comando Supremo rapidly recovered itself and, under its direction, the Italian Army reëstablished with its own forces a continuous front in the valley of the Piave, without the British and French units having to be engaged."

Quotation Context

When joint German and Austro-Hungarian forces attacked on October 24, 1917 in the Battle of Caporetto, their first offensive on the Isonzo Front in Italy's northeast, the Italian Second Army, and then the entire front collapsed. Fearing Italy would be driven out of the war, the British and French agreed at the Rapallo Conference in early December to send troops to Italy. Italian King Victor Emmanuel sacked Luigi Cadorna, his commander in chief, replacing him with Armando Diaz. General Ferdinand Foch was the lead French representative at the conference. The Asiago plateau was on Italy's northern front near Trentino. Monte Grappa and Monte Tomba were on the new northeastern front of the Piave River.

Source

The Memoirs of Marshal Foch, translated by Col. T. Bentley Mott by Ferdinand Foch, page 232, copyright © 1931 by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Co., publication date: 1931

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1917-11-23, 1917, November, Italy, Trentino,