![]() ![]() After a gruesome collision, the resistance of the Italians was completely broken, after which they began to flee down the slope towards their starting positions, after that the Bosniaks striked the italian forces with all their ferocity with machine guns. On June 23, under the protection of searchlights, the Italians crawled to the first lines of the Austro-Hungarians, At first the Bosniaks let them approach them only a few meters, and then they rained hand grenades on them, after which they jumped out of improvised trenches and entered into hand-to-hand combat. Moreover, overnight they eliminated a group of Italian scouts who tried to cut the repaired wire obstacles. The Bosniaks spent the whole day in such trenches enduring constant artillery fire, which took the first victims, but they did not leave their position. it was ordered to take possession of the shallow hollows created by the action of enemy missiles. A real problem arose for the Bosniaks when they noticed that the well-fortified trenches were completely leveled due to the action of the Italian artillery. The Bosniak soldiers managed to break through to a new position without any losses. After a fierce artillery-infantry attack by the Italians on two important elevations (812 and 653), the Austro-Hungarian battalion that defended the said area remained decimated.Considering that the Bosnian soldiers in the Austro-Hungarian army were considered to be proven and brave soldiers, 3 battalions of the 2nd Bosnian-Herzegovinian regiment were withdrawn and sent to the east of the Plava river, in order to strengthen the line that was threatened after the Italian penetration. In June 1915 in the midst of the difficult Battle of Isonzo against the italians, the 2nd Bosnian-Herzegovinian Regiment was sent to assist the 1st Mountain Brigade of the Austro-Hungarian Army. ![]() As a result, the German Supreme Command, led by Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, determined with their Austrian counterpart, Arz von Straussenberg, to launch a combined operation against the Italians, intended for mid-September.The Battle of Monte San Michele was a battle fought between the Austro-Hungarian Army and the Royal Italian Army on the Italian Front in World War 1 First Attack on Monte San Michele Indeed, in the wake of the Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo in August 1917, Austria’s positions around the city of Gorizia were dangerously close to collapse. Despite this, the wave of Italian attacks had also taken a serious toll on Austro-Hungarian resources in the region. On October 24, 1917, a combined German and Austro-Hungarian force scores one of the most crushing victories of World War I, decimating the Italian line along the northern stretch of the Isonzo River in the Battle of Caporetto, also known as the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo, or the Battle of Karfreit (to the Germans).īy the autumn of 1917, Italian Commander in Chief Luigi Cadorna’s strategy of successive offensives near the Isonzo River in northern Italy-11 Italian attacks since May 1915 preceded the Austrian assault at Caporetto-had cost the Italians heavy casualties for an advance of less than seven miles, only one third of the way towards their preliminary objective, the city of Trieste on the Adriatic Sea.
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