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Fifth Battle of the Isonzo
Part of the Italian Front (World War I)
Italian trenches at the beginning of the Fifth Battle of the Isonzo
Date
9–15 March 1916
Location
Soča river, western Slovenia
Result
Inconclusive
Belligerents
Kingdom of Italy
Austria-Hungary
Commanders and leaders
Luigi Cadorna (Chief of Staff of the Italian Army) Pietro Frugoni (Commander of Second Army) Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia (Commander of Third Army)
Archduke Friedrich (Supreme Commander of the Austro-Hungarian Army) Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (Chief of the General Staff) Archduke Eugen of Austria-Teschen (Commander of Southwest Front) Svetozar Boroević von Bojna (Commander of Fifth Army) Franz Rohr von Denta (Commander of Tenth Army) Gustav Globočnik Edler von Vojka (Commander of Group Globočnik in Tenth Army)
Strength
286 battalions (plus 90 in reserve) 1,360 guns
100 battalions (plus 30 in reserve). 470 guns
Casualties and losses
1,882 killed, wounded and missing
1,985 killed and wounded
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Italian Front
1915
1st Isonzo
Col Basson
2nd Isonzo
Podgora
3rd Isonzo
4th Isonzo
1916
5th Isonzo
Asiago (Monte Cengio)
Gorizia (6th Isonzo) (Doberdò)
7th Isonzo
8th Isonzo
9th Isonzo
White Friday
1917
10th Isonzo
Flondar
Ortigara
11th Isonzo
Caporetto (12th Isonzo)
Pozzuolo
1st Piave River
1st Monte Grappa
1918
2nd Piave River (Capture of Col Moschin)
2nd Monte Grappa
San Matteo
3rd Monte Grappa
Vittorio Veneto
White War (1915–1918)
Adamello
Pasubio
Sentinella Pass
Marmolada
Lagazuoi
Col di Lana
Tofane
Monte Cristallo
Monte Piana
Tre Cime di Lavaredo
Monte Paterno
The Fifth Battle of the Isonzo was fought from March 9–15, 1916 between the armies of the Kingdom of Italy and those of Austria-Hungary. The Italians had decided to launch another offensive on the Soča (Isonzo) River.
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