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"On 9 August, the church bells of Friuli rang out for the first time since 24 May 1915. Patriots declared that a wholly Italian army had defeated a great foreign army for the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire. Italy's allies agreed that the capture of Gorizia was a mighty feat of arms. The enemy had been driven back four to six kilometres, along a 24-kilometre front. It was by far the biggest advance to date."
Chief of the Italian General Staff General Luigi Cadorna launched his Sixth Battle of the Isonzo on August 6, 1916. It was his most successful offensive. Gorizia, the Austro-Hungarian city of Görz, had a population of 31,000 before the war. The civilian population was about 1,500 by the time the Italians took it.
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919 by Mark Thompson, page 176, copyright © 2008 Mark Thompson, publisher: Basic Books, publication date: 2009
1916-08-09, 1916, August, Gorizia, Sixth Battle of the Isonzo, Sixth Isonzo
