Events<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\nEvents in the<\/span><\/strong>
\nGreat War<\/span><\/strong><\/h1><\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Events<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nSpring offensive<\/strong><\/h2>\nNamed Strafexpedition<\/strong> by the Italians, the German translation of \u201cpunitive expedition\u201d, this was a savage battle fought between the Italian and Austro-Hungarian armies on the Vicenza plateaux from 15 May to 27 June 1916. In German, this battle is referred to as the Fr\u00fchjahrsoffensive (spring offensive).
\nIn fact, it was indeed a punitive expedition<\/strong> that the Austro-Hungarians launched along the vertex of the Trentino salient consisting of the Vicenza foothills between the course of the Adige to the west and the Brenta to the east. The Austro-Hungarian offensive was intended as a punishment for the Italian betrayal of the Triple Alliance<\/strong>.
\nIts organiser was General Franz Conrad<\/strong>, who wanted to break through to the heart of the Veneto plain and take the big Italian army deployed on the Cadore and Isonzo fronts from the rear to crush it and compel it to surrender.
\nAbout 230,545 men were lost during the battle between the two armies. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/avgg.provincia.vicenza.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/forte_Campomolon.png\" "\\"forte_Campomolon\\"")
<\/span><\/div>Fort Campolongo<\/span><\/h3>\nafter the Austro-Hungarian attack<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27356%27%20height%3D%27252%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20356%20252%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27356%27%20height%3D%27252%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\")
<\/div><\/div>Events<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>The battle of
\nthe plateaux<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\nThe biggest high-altitude battle ever fought took place on the summit of Monte Ortigara<\/strong>, a 2,105 m peak at the eastern extremity of the Asiago Plateau. The Italians and the Austro-Hungarians attacked and bombarded each other continuously from 10 to 29 June 1917<\/strong> to conquer the peak.<\/span>
\nOn 25 June, after two weeks of very hard fighting, the Habsburg soldiers repulsed the assaults of the Italian 6th Army, finally using flame launchers and gas.<\/span>
\nThe Battle of Ortigara<\/strong> thus became one of the most dramatic pages of the Great War: in 16 days the Italians lost more than 25,000 men and the Austro-Hungarians 9,000.<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Events<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nRemembrance<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n During the war, cimiteri di guerra (war cemeteries;<\/strong> first burial) sprang up near the front line, the firing line, of the various battlefronts and near field hospitals; they were intended for soldiers who died during the fighting either of their wounds or of sickness. Available spaces in existing civilian cemeteries or neighbouring spaces were used to bury those who died in military hospitals in urban centres.<\/span><\/p>\nCimiteri militari<\/strong> (military cemeteries; second burial) are places where bodies were transferred immediately after the war to places more suitable for visitors and nearer urban centres, also as a result of the forming of a central office for caring for and honouring the fallen in battle by decree of the War Ministry of 19 March 1920. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27355%27%20height%3D%27219%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20355%20219%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27355%27%20height%3D%27219%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\")
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27666%27%20height%3D%27480%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20666%20480%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27666%27%20height%3D%27480%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\")
<\/div><\/div>Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>The Unknown Soldier<\/strong><\/h2>\nAfter the First World War, the nations that had taken part in it wished to honour the sacrifices and heroism of their soldiers, identifying them all over the remains of an unknown soldier<\/strong>, a person who had died in war and had never been identified, and thus without a name or a grave at which he could be sorrowed for and remembered.<\/span>
\nIn October 1921 the Italian War Ministry appointed a commission to travel the battlefields and gather eleven unidentified bodies. One was chosen to represent them all, and the person to whom the duty fell of choosing the Unknown Soldier was Maria Bergamas<\/strong> of Trieste, whose son Antonio<\/strong> had deserted from the Austro-Hungarian ranks to enrol in the Italian army and had fallen during the fighting without it having been possible to identify his body.<\/span>
\nThe remains chosen were loaded on a special train at Aquileia<\/strong> and a long journey started that was destined to go down in history. The train travelled surrounded by the affection of the whole country to Rome, where the body was entombed under the Altar of the Fatherland<\/strong> on 4 November 1921<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\u201cAbbiamo ricostruito edifici e recuperato trincee [\u2026] per non dimenticare che l\u2019unit\u00e0 dell\u2019Europa, da ripensare per rinforzare, \u00e8 diventata un ideale, un\u2019opportunit\u00e0 ed una realt\u00e0 dopo sanguinose guerre fratricide.<\/p>\n
Abbiamo lavorato per non dimenticare quelli che non sapevano n\u00e9 leggere n\u00e9 scrivere, e non avevano idea per chi e per che cosa dovevano morire; quelli che sapevano, ma non lo potevano dire, che la guerra non era voluta n\u00e9 da Dio n\u00e9 dal fato, ma dal volere irrazionale degli uomini; quelli che hanno maledetto la guerra, ed il momento in cui venivano impartiti loro illogici comandi destinati ad inutili stragi, fucili puntati davanti e fucili spianati dietro; quelli che non si sono mai perdonati di aver dovuto ucciso un alto uomo.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/blockquote>
Events in the<\/span><\/strong>
\nGreat War<\/span><\/strong><\/h1><\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Events<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nSpring offensive<\/strong><\/h2>\nNamed Strafexpedition<\/strong> by the Italians, the German translation of \u201cpunitive expedition\u201d, this was a savage battle fought between the Italian and Austro-Hungarian armies on the Vicenza plateaux from 15 May to 27 June 1916. In German, this battle is referred to as the Fr\u00fchjahrsoffensive (spring offensive).
\nIn fact, it was indeed a punitive expedition<\/strong> that the Austro-Hungarians launched along the vertex of the Trentino salient consisting of the Vicenza foothills between the course of the Adige to the west and the Brenta to the east. The Austro-Hungarian offensive was intended as a punishment for the Italian betrayal of the Triple Alliance<\/strong>.
\nIts organiser was General Franz Conrad<\/strong>, who wanted to break through to the heart of the Veneto plain and take the big Italian army deployed on the Cadore and Isonzo fronts from the rear to crush it and compel it to surrender.
\nAbout 230,545 men were lost during the battle between the two armies. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/div>Fort Campolongo<\/span><\/h3>\nafter the Austro-Hungarian attack<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Events<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>The battle of
\nthe plateaux<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\nThe biggest high-altitude battle ever fought took place on the summit of Monte Ortigara<\/strong>, a 2,105 m peak at the eastern extremity of the Asiago Plateau. The Italians and the Austro-Hungarians attacked and bombarded each other continuously from 10 to 29 June 1917<\/strong> to conquer the peak.<\/span>
\nOn 25 June, after two weeks of very hard fighting, the Habsburg soldiers repulsed the assaults of the Italian 6th Army, finally using flame launchers and gas.<\/span>
\nThe Battle of Ortigara<\/strong> thus became one of the most dramatic pages of the Great War: in 16 days the Italians lost more than 25,000 men and the Austro-Hungarians 9,000.<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Events<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nRemembrance<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n During the war, cimiteri di guerra (war cemeteries;<\/strong> first burial) sprang up near the front line, the firing line, of the various battlefronts and near field hospitals; they were intended for soldiers who died during the fighting either of their wounds or of sickness. Available spaces in existing civilian cemeteries or neighbouring spaces were used to bury those who died in military hospitals in urban centres.<\/span><\/p>\nCimiteri militari<\/strong> (military cemeteries; second burial) are places where bodies were transferred immediately after the war to places more suitable for visitors and nearer urban centres, also as a result of the forming of a central office for caring for and honouring the fallen in battle by decree of the War Ministry of 19 March 1920. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>The Unknown Soldier<\/strong><\/h2>\nAfter the First World War, the nations that had taken part in it wished to honour the sacrifices and heroism of their soldiers, identifying them all over the remains of an unknown soldier<\/strong>, a person who had died in war and had never been identified, and thus without a name or a grave at which he could be sorrowed for and remembered.<\/span>
\nIn October 1921 the Italian War Ministry appointed a commission to travel the battlefields and gather eleven unidentified bodies. One was chosen to represent them all, and the person to whom the duty fell of choosing the Unknown Soldier was Maria Bergamas<\/strong> of Trieste, whose son Antonio<\/strong> had deserted from the Austro-Hungarian ranks to enrol in the Italian army and had fallen during the fighting without it having been possible to identify his body.<\/span>
\nThe remains chosen were loaded on a special train at Aquileia<\/strong> and a long journey started that was destined to go down in history. The train travelled surrounded by the affection of the whole country to Rome, where the body was entombed under the Altar of the Fatherland<\/strong> on 4 November 1921<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\u201cAbbiamo ricostruito edifici e recuperato trincee [\u2026] per non dimenticare che l\u2019unit\u00e0 dell\u2019Europa, da ripensare per rinforzare, \u00e8 diventata un ideale, un\u2019opportunit\u00e0 ed una realt\u00e0 dopo sanguinose guerre fratricide.<\/p>\n
Abbiamo lavorato per non dimenticare quelli che non sapevano n\u00e9 leggere n\u00e9 scrivere, e non avevano idea per chi e per che cosa dovevano morire; quelli che sapevano, ma non lo potevano dire, che la guerra non era voluta n\u00e9 da Dio n\u00e9 dal fato, ma dal volere irrazionale degli uomini; quelli che hanno maledetto la guerra, ed il momento in cui venivano impartiti loro illogici comandi destinati ad inutili stragi, fucili puntati davanti e fucili spianati dietro; quelli che non si sono mai perdonati di aver dovuto ucciso un alto uomo.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/blockquote>
Events<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Named Strafexpedition<\/strong> by the Italians, the German translation of \u201cpunitive expedition\u201d, this was a savage battle fought between the Italian and Austro-Hungarian armies on the Vicenza plateaux from 15 May to 27 June 1916. In German, this battle is referred to as the Fr\u00fchjahrsoffensive (spring offensive). Events<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div> The biggest high-altitude battle ever fought took place on the summit of Monte Ortigara<\/strong>, a 2,105 m peak at the eastern extremity of the Asiago Plateau. The Italians and the Austro-Hungarians attacked and bombarded each other continuously from 10 to 29 June 1917<\/strong> to conquer the peak.<\/span> Events<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n During the war, cimiteri di guerra (war cemeteries;<\/strong> first burial) sprang up near the front line, the firing line, of the various battlefronts and near field hospitals; they were intended for soldiers who died during the fighting either of their wounds or of sickness. Available spaces in existing civilian cemeteries or neighbouring spaces were used to bury those who died in military hospitals in urban centres.<\/span><\/p>\n Cimiteri militari<\/strong> (military cemeteries; second burial) are places where bodies were transferred immediately after the war to places more suitable for visitors and nearer urban centres, also as a result of the forming of a central office for caring for and honouring the fallen in battle by decree of the War Ministry of 19 March 1920. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div> After the First World War, the nations that had taken part in it wished to honour the sacrifices and heroism of their soldiers, identifying them all over the remains of an unknown soldier<\/strong>, a person who had died in war and had never been identified, and thus without a name or a grave at which he could be sorrowed for and remembered.<\/span> \u201cAbbiamo ricostruito edifici e recuperato trincee [\u2026] per non dimenticare che l\u2019unit\u00e0 dell\u2019Europa, da ripensare per rinforzare, \u00e8 diventata un ideale, un\u2019opportunit\u00e0 ed una realt\u00e0 dopo sanguinose guerre fratricide.<\/p>\n Abbiamo lavorato per non dimenticare quelli che non sapevano n\u00e9 leggere n\u00e9 scrivere, e non avevano idea per chi e per che cosa dovevano morire; quelli che sapevano, ma non lo potevano dire, che la guerra non era voluta n\u00e9 da Dio n\u00e9 dal fato, ma dal volere irrazionale degli uomini; quelli che hanno maledetto la guerra, ed il momento in cui venivano impartiti loro illogici comandi destinati ad inutili stragi, fucili puntati davanti e fucili spianati dietro; quelli che non si sono mai perdonati di aver dovuto ucciso un alto uomo.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/blockquote>Spring offensive<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nIn fact, it was indeed a punitive expedition<\/strong> that the Austro-Hungarians launched along the vertex of the Trentino salient consisting of the Vicenza foothills between the course of the Adige to the west and the Brenta to the east. The Austro-Hungarian offensive was intended as a punishment for the Italian betrayal of the Triple Alliance<\/strong>.
\nIts organiser was General Franz Conrad<\/strong>, who wanted to break through to the heart of the Veneto plain and take the big Italian army deployed on the Cadore and Isonzo fronts from the rear to crush it and compel it to surrender.
\nAbout 230,545 men were lost during the battle between the two armies. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/div>Fort Campolongo<\/span><\/h3>\n
after the Austro-Hungarian attack<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/div><\/div>
The battle of
\nthe plateaux<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
\nOn 25 June, after two weeks of very hard fighting, the Habsburg soldiers repulsed the assaults of the Italian 6th Army, finally using flame launchers and gas.<\/span>
\nThe Battle of Ortigara<\/strong> thus became one of the most dramatic pages of the Great War: in 16 days the Italians lost more than 25,000 men and the Austro-Hungarians 9,000.<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>Remembrance<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
<\/div><\/div>
<\/div><\/div>
The Unknown Soldier<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nIn October 1921 the Italian War Ministry appointed a commission to travel the battlefields and gather eleven unidentified bodies. One was chosen to represent them all, and the person to whom the duty fell of choosing the Unknown Soldier was Maria Bergamas<\/strong> of Trieste, whose son Antonio<\/strong> had deserted from the Austro-Hungarian ranks to enrol in the Italian army and had fallen during the fighting without it having been possible to identify his body.<\/span>
\nThe remains chosen were loaded on a special train at Aquileia<\/strong> and a long journey started that was destined to go down in history. The train travelled surrounded by the affection of the whole country to Rome, where the body was entombed under the Altar of the Fatherland<\/strong> on 4 November 1921<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>