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Luigi Cadorna, was an Italian general, Marshal of Italy and Count, most famous for being the Chief of Staff of the Italian Army from 1914 until late 1917 during World War I. He commanded the Italian army on the Italian front, a theatre marked by trench warfare and attrition on the Eastern Alps and Isonzo river. Cadorna launched multiple offensives across the Isonzo front during which the Italian a…
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culture · Italian general and count (1850–1928) · politician · military officer · military commander · World War I · author · also Luigi Cadorna, Cadorna
Born 4 September 1850 · Died 21 December 1928 · Q333809
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He was the father of Raffaele Cadorna Jr., an Italian general who fought during World War I and World War II and was famous as one of the commanders of the Italian resistance against the German forces occupying northern Italy after 1943.
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Died 1928-12-21.
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Two years after Benito Mussolini had seized power
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And highly critical of Cadorna
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Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Military Order of Savoy (1916).
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After the recapture of Asiago and the occupation of Gorizia, with the rapid conquest of the Sabotino
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(the seventh from 14 to 17 September, the eighth from 10 to 12 October, the ninth from 1 to 4 November)
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Which he had rejected over the issue of political control during wartime
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Cadorna subsequently held a number of senior staff and divisional/corps command positions
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As an officer in the 2nd Regiment of Artillery, Cadorna participated in the occupation of Rome as part of a force commanded by his father
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Studied at Royal Academy of Turin (1865–1868).
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Studied at Military School Teulié (1860–1865).
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Cadorna became a student at the "Teuliè" Military School in Milan
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Born 1850-09-04.
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