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Caporetto

American  
[kap-uh-ret-oh, kah-paw-ret-taw] / ˌkæp əˈrɛt oʊ, ˌkɑ pɔˈrɛt tɔ /

noun

  1. Italian name of Kobarid.


Caporetto British  
/ kapoˈretto /

noun

  1. the Italian name for Kobarid

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

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

The Germans break through at Caporetto, and the Italian army dissolves.

From Time Magazine Archive

Well, to them I will say that I have with me now five veterans of Caporetto awaiting passage to join Graziani in Libya.

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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