Caporetto
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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“It is sport’s Battle of Caporetto, Italy’s Vietnam,” wrote Emanuela Audisio in La Repubblica before the game.
From The Guardian ● May 21, 2018
He took over as Premier on that bleak October day in 1917 when the Austro-German armies burst through the Alps at Caporetto.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the 10th Mountain Division headquarters in Caporetto, all was Yank efficiency: maps, intelligence reports, crisp uniforms, shiny equipment, freshly shaved chins, in weird contrast to what we had seen on the road coming up.
From Time Magazine Archive
A Farewell to Arms is the story of their meeting, wooing, mating and her death in childbirth during the Caporetto retreat of 1917.
From Time Magazine Archive
I said I didn’t but that some of the other cars were at Caporetto.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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