Battle of Doberdò
Battle of Doberdò | |||||||
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Part of the First World War | |||||||
Depiction of the Battle of Doberdò.[1] | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Kingdom of Italy | Austria-Hungary | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Third Army ) |
Archduke Friedrich (Supreme Commander of the Austro-Hungarian Army) Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (Chief of the General Staff) Svetozar Boroević von Bojna (Commander of Fifth Army) | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
3rd Army | 5th Army | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
6,000 casualties | 9,300 casualties |
The Battle of
Battle
Before the battle, the
Results
Both armies took heavy losses, with roughly 20,000 men killed or missing. Although they had secured their objective, the losses for the Italians were significant, with roughly 5,000 men dead, as a result of frontal assaults on superior enemy defenses and the Austro-Hungarians' use of
References
- ^ "7/8 The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century, by David Reynolds".
- ^ a b c Carlson, Stephen. "World War I's bloodiest front is one you've never heard of". Business Insider. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
- ^ "Sixth Battle of the Isonzo (6 - 17 August 1916)". Isonzo Battlefields Travel. 7 August 2017. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
Further reading
- Lukachich, Géza (1918). A Doberdó védelme az első isonzói csatában. [The defense of the Doberdó in the first battle of Isonzó]. Budapest: Atheaneum. p. 89.
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