Battle of Vittorio Veneto

Battle of Vittorio Veneto
	Part of the Italian Front of World War I
	; Map of the battle
Date	24 October – 4 November 1918
Location	Vittorio, Kingdom of Italy45°57′21″N 12°20′49″E / 45.95583°N 12.34694°E
Result	Italian victory Collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire;
Belligerents
Italy ; United Kingdom ; France ; United States	Austria-Hungary
Commanders and leaders
Armando Diaz	AD. Joseph August; Alexander von Krobatin; Svetozar Boroević
Strength
57 divisions: 1,415,000 in 52 divisions; ≈40,000 in 3 divisions; 25,000 in 2 divisions; 1,200 in one regiment; Total : 1,486,200 7,700 guns; 600 aircraft	61 divisions: 1,800,000; 6,145 guns;
Casualties and losses
40,917; 38,000 7,000 killed; 23,000 wounded; 8,000 missing and captured; 2,139; 778; 8	528,000; 30,000 killed; 50,000 wounded; 448,000 captured; 5,000+ artillery pieces captured

The Battle of Vittorio Veneto was fought from 24 October to 3 November 1918 (with an armistice taking effect 24 hours later) near Vittorio Veneto on the Italian Front during World War I. After having thoroughly defeated Austro-Hungarian troops during the defensive Battle of the Piave River, the Italian army launched a great counter-offensive: the Italian victory^[1]^[2]^[9] marked the end of the war on the Italian Front, secured the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and contributed to the end of the First World War just one week later.^[4] On 1 November, the new Hungarian government of Count Mihály Károlyi decided to recall all of the troops, who were conscripted from the territory of Kingdom of Hungary, which was a major blow for the Habsburgs' armies.^[10] The battle led to the capture of over 5,000 artillery pieces and over 350,000 Austro-Hungarian troops, including 120,000 Germans, 83,000 Czechs and Slovaks, 60,000 South Slavs, 40,000 Poles, several tens of thousands of Romanians and Ukrainians, and 7,000 Austro-Hungarian loyalist Italians and Friulians.^[11]^[12]

^ ^a ^b Burgwyn, H. James (1997). Italian foreign policy in the interwar period, 1918–1940. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 4. ISBN 0-275-94877-3.
^ ^a ^b Schindler, John R. (2001). Isonzo: The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Great War. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 303. ISBN 0-275-97204-6.
^ Mack Smith, Denis (1982). Mussolini. Knopf. p. 31. ISBN 0-394-50694-4.
^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference Luden was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Marshall Cavendish Corporation (2002). History of World War I. Marshall Cavendish. pp. 715–716. ISBN 0-7614-7234-7. The Battle of Vittorio Veneto during October and November saw the Austro-Hungarian forces collapse in disarray. Thereafter the empire fell apart rapidly.
^ World War I: The Definitive Visual History from Sarajevo to Versailles. Penguin. 2014. p. 319. ISBN 978-1-4654-3490-6.
^ ^a ^b Stevenson, David (19 September 2011). With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918. Harvard University Press. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-674-06226-9. Retrieved 26 July 2015. According to the Commando supremo the Allies had 57 divisions and 7,700 guns.
^ Statistics of the Military Effort of the British Empire During the Great War 1914–1920, The War Office, pp. 356–357.
^ Mack Smith, Denis (1982). Mussolini. Knopf. p. 31. ISBN 0-394-50694-4.
^ Robert Gerwarth (2020). November 1918 The German Revolution. Oxford University Press. p. 65. ISBN 9780192606334.
^ Thompson, Mark. The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915–1919. Basic Books, 17 March 2009. p. 363.
^ Arnaldi, Girolamo (2005). Italy and Its Invaders. Harvard University Press. p. 194. ISBN 0-674-01870-2.

[victory-1] Burgwyn, H. James (1997). Italian foreign policy in the interwar period, 1918–1940. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 4. ISBN 0-275-94877-3.

[auto-2] Schindler, John R. (2001). Isonzo: The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Great War. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 303. ISBN 0-275-97204-6.

[3] Mack Smith, Denis (1982). Mussolini. Knopf. p. 31. ISBN 0-394-50694-4.

[Luden-4] Cite error: The named reference Luden was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[plan-5] Marshall Cavendish Corporation (2002). History of World War I. Marshall Cavendish. pp. 715–716. ISBN 0-7614-7234-7. The Battle of Vittorio Veneto during October and November saw the Austro-Hungarian forces collapse in disarray. Thereafter the empire fell apart rapidly.

[6] World War I: The Definitive Visual History from Sarajevo to Versailles. Penguin. 2014. p. 319. ISBN 978-1-4654-3490-6.

[Stevenson157-7] Stevenson, David (19 September 2011). With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918. Harvard University Press. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-674-06226-9. Retrieved 26 July 2015. According to the Commando supremo the Allies had 57 divisions and 7,700 guns.

[8] Statistics of the Military Effort of the British Empire During the Great War 1914–1920, The War Office, pp. 356–357.

[9] Mack Smith, Denis (1982). Mussolini. Knopf. p. 31. ISBN 0-394-50694-4.

[10] Robert Gerwarth (2020). November 1918 The German Revolution. Oxford University Press. p. 65. ISBN 9780192606334.

[11] Thompson, Mark. The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915–1919. Basic Books, 17 March 2009. p. 363.

[12] Arnaldi, Girolamo (2005). Italy and Its Invaders. Harvard University Press. p. 194. ISBN 0-674-01870-2.

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