Caporetto
Americannoun
noun
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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
In 1917 Foch became Chief of the French General Staff, made a flying visit to Italy to rally the Italian armies fleeing from Caporetto.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Germans break through at Caporetto, and the Italian army dissolves.
From Time Magazine Archive
I volunteered for the Army when the war came, then after Caporetto my ideas began to change.
From Time Magazine Archive
In October 1917, near the little frontier town of Caporetto, the Austrians with their German allies achieved an unexpected breakthrough in what is called the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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