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Battle of Vittorio Veneto | |||||||
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Part of the Italian Front of World War I | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
57 divisions:[7]
Total : 1,486,200 7,700 guns600 aircraft |
61 divisions:
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Casualties and losses | |||||||
40,917
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528,000[8] 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]
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).The Battle of Vittorio Veneto during October and November saw the Austro-Hungarian forces collapse in disarray. Thereafter the empire fell apart rapidly.
According to the Commando supremo the Allies had 57 divisions and 7,700 guns.