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"On 19 September [1917], Cadorna halted the battle and ordered all units onto the defensive. The Italians had taken 166,000 casualties, including 40,000 dead, of whom 25,000 died on San Gabriele for trivial gains. Some 400 of the 600 battalions involved in the battle had lost one-half to two-thirds of their strength. Cadorna's and Capello's actions in Eleventh Battle were so careless and self-destructive that historians have struggled to account for them. In truth, the two men acted fully in character. Cadorna's battle plans always tended to incoherence, his command often slackened fatally in the course of offensives, and he had never been able to control Capello (except by banishing him from the Isonzo). Capello's disobedience at critical moments was equally familiar."
In September 1917 Italian commander in chief Luigi Cadorna called a halt to his Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo since Italy had entered the war in May 1915. In four Isonzos in the first calendar year, five in 1916, and two more by September 1917, Cadorna had crossed the Isonzo River into Austria-Hungary, taken some territory, and cost hundreds of thousands of casualties. Beyond each plateau and mountain peak another awaited. General Luigi Capello had earned his nickname of 'the Butcher' in Italy's conquest of Libya.
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919 by Mark Thompson, page 282, copyright © 2008 Mark Thompson, publisher: Basic Books, publication date: 2009
1917-09-19, September, 1917, Cadorna, Luigi Cadorna, Capello, Luigi Capello, Battle of the Isonzo, Battles of the Isonzo, Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo, Eleventh Isonzo
