Word: cadorna
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Died. Count Luigi Cadorna, 78, wartime Commander in Chief of the Italian Army; from a cerebral blood clot; in Bordighera, Italy...
...that moment, with Italian Commander-in-Chief Luigi Cadorna in desperate retreat, the Third Army was found to be masterfully holding its own. The successful Third Army General was Armando Diaz. Cadorna was brushed aside and Diaz became Commander-in-Chief on Nov. 9, 1917. Within 360 days he had not only retrieved the losses of Caporetto but shattered the Austro-Hungarian armies and forced the Dual Monarchy to sign an abject separate peace...
...Army Reform Bill met opposition. Marshals Cadorna and Diaz, Senators, opposed the Bill, cried that Italy might at any time be called to defend her frontiers, that a force of 200,000 men was not excessive...