Quadrilatero
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The Quadrilatero (English: Quadrilateral, for greater specificity often called the "Quadrilateral
Adige Rivers. The name refers to the fact that on a map the fortresses appear to form the vertices of a quadrilateral. In the period between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the Revolutions of 1848, they were the only fully modernized and armed fortresses within the Empire.[1]
Starting from c. 1850, supplies and reinforcements were shipped to the positions through the new Venice-Milan railroad.
The experience of the
rifled guns had been used for the first time by the Italian Army, pushed the Austrians to build a second line of eight forts, about 4 kilometers from the main line (completed in the spring of 1866), pivoting around Verona
.
Gallery
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See also
- Italian unification
- Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars
- Verona defensive system
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References
- ^ Rothenburg, G. The Army of Francis Joseph. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1976. p 18.