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Battle of Mount Ortigara

Field	Value
conflict	Battle of Mount Ortigara
partof	the Italian Front of the First World War
image	Monte Ortigara.JPG
image_size	300
caption	Mount Ortigara summit
date	10–25 June 1917
place	Southern Trentino, present-day Italy
coordinates
map_type	Italy
map_relief	yes
result	Austro-Hungarian victory
combatant1	Kingdom of Italy
combatant2	Austria-Hungary
commander1	Kingdom of Italy Luigi Cadorna
Kingdom of Italy Ettore Mambretti
commander2	Austria-Hungary Arthur Arz von Straussenburg
Austria-Hungary Viktor Graf von Scheuchenstuel
units1	Kingdom of Italy 6th Army
units2	Austria-Hungary 11th Army
strength1	300,000
1,600 guns
strength2	100,000
500 guns
casualties1	23,000 dead or wounded
casualties2	9,000 dead or wounded

Kingdom of Italy Ettore Mambretti Austria-Hungary Viktor Graf von Scheuchenstuel 1,600 guns 500 guns

The Battle of Mount Ortigara was fought from 10 to 25 June 1917 between the Italian and Austro-Hungarian armies for possession of Mount Ortigara, in the Asiago Plateau.

Battle

The attack began on 10 June and after fierce and bloody fighting, the Italian 52nd Alpine Division managed to capture the top of Mount Ortigara.

The Austro-Hungarian command promptly sent many trained reinforcements. On 25 June, the 11 Italian battalions guarding the summit were attacked by Austro-Hungarian shock troops which retook it, the strenuous Italian resistance notwithstanding.

The 52nd Division alone suffered about half the Italian casualties. General Ettore Mambretti, commander of the Sixth Army, was considered responsible for the heavy casualties and removed from command.

A letter from a young soldier, written on the eve of the battle, is part of the museum of the Asiago War Memorial. Adolfo Ferrero wrote this letter to his family shortly before dying in combat, and the letter was later discovered in the personal effects of his page, whose body was exhumed from Mount Ortigara in the 1950s.

File:WWI - Monte Ortigara - Italian Alpini before the Battle for Monte Ortigara June 1917.jpg|Alpini before the Battle File:WWI - Monte Ortigara - Heavy Italian artillery fires.jpg|Heavy Italian artillery at work File:WWI - Monte Ortigara - Alpini observation post on Cima Levante.jpg|Italian officers at an observation post on Cima Levante

Notes

References

[[#Gooch. Gooch (2014)]], p. 222
"Sacrario militare di Asiago-Leiten e museo del Sacrario". Itinerari della Grande Guerra.
"Il Sacrario Militare". la radio dell'Altopiano 7 Comuni.

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