Raffaele Cadorna Jr.

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General
Raffaele Cadorna Jr.
Member of the Senate of the Republic
ConstituencyVerbano-Cusio-Ossola
Personal details
Born(1889-09-12)12 September 1889
Ariete Armoured Division
CLN
Battles/warsItalo-Turkish War
World War I
World War II
Italian Civil War

Raffaele Cadorna Jr. (12 September 1889 – 20 December 1973) was an Italian general who fought during World War I and World War II. He is famous as one of the commanders of the Italian Resistance against German occupying forces in north Italy after 1943.[1]

Early life

Cadorna was born in

captain. In the early years of the 1920s, he was part of the Allied commission for the new border of Germany. He was later named military attaché to the Italian embassy in Prague
.

In 1935 he opposed the decision of

invade Ethiopia. Two years later he was promoted to the rank of colonel
as commander of Italy's 3rd Cavalry Regiment, the Savoia Cavalleria.

World War II

During the early years of World War II, he took part in some actions against France, and was then named commander of the school of cavalry in

Regio Esercito. After the Armistice of Cassibile was announced on 8 September 1943 the Ariete participated in the defense of Rome against the German attack, but was disbanded after the military commander of Rome, General Calvi di Bergolo, had signed a ceasefire with the German commands.[2]

On 11 August 1944 he was parachuted into Val Cavallina near

CLNAI in northern Italy.[3][4]

In April 1945, he was a member of the partisan delegation that tried to reach an agreement with Mussolini in the archbishop's palace of Milan.

On 15 June 1945 he was awarded the Patriot's Certificate, a decoration reserved to those who had contributed to the Italian resistance movement. He was also awarded the Legion of Merit – Degree of Commander for service between September 1943 to May 1945 (General Order 124, 27 December 1945).

In July 1945 he was named chief of staff of the Italian Army. In 1947 he resigned from this post due to different points of view with the Minister of Defence.

Later life

Cadorna as senator

From 1948 to 1963 he was a senator of the Christian Democracy party. He enrolled in the Mixed Group and became President of the Senate 4th Permanent Commission for Defence sector. Subsequently, he was promoted Army corps general of the military reserve force. In 1953, Cadorna was re-elected at the Senate and in 1959 resulted the first among the non-elected candidates. He become deputy in the seat of Teresio Guglielmone after the latter's death on 24 January 1959. In 1961 he returned to be a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies Defence Commission and remained in charge until the legislature's term in 1963.[5]

In 1964, along with

Presidentialism within the constitutional parliamentary form of the State. The related political movement melted down in 1968 when none of its candidates was elected.[6][7]

He died in Rome in 1973.

Bibliography

See also

References

  1. ^ Indro Montanelli, Roberto Cervi, Storia d'Italia, Rcs Quotidiani, 2003.
  2. ^ Ariete II div.cor.di cavalleria
  3. ^ a b The National Archives : HS 9/253/7 – Raffaele CADORNA
  4. ^ Secondment of Captain W O Churchill to Operation Floodlight (see footnote)
  5. ^ "Raffaele Cadorna". Senate of the Italian Republic (in Italian).
  6. ^ "Archivi Privati – Archivio Randolfo Pacciardi (1919 aprile 22 – 1991 aprile 16)" [PRIVATE Archives – Randolfo Pacciardi Archive (April 22, 1919 – April 16, 1991)]. Italian Chamber of Deputies (in Italian). Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  7. OCLC 884271366
    . Retrieved 8 July 2021. (Conference Proceedings)
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