Fifth Battle of the Isonzo

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Fifth Battle of the Isonzo
Part of the Italian Front (World War I)
Italian trenches at the beginning of the Fifth Battle of the Isonzo
Date 9–15 March 1916 Location Soča river, western Slovenia Result Inconclusive
Belligerents
Kingdom of Italy	Austria-Hungary
Commanders and leaders
Luigi Cadorna (Chief of Staff of the Italian Army) Pietro Frugoni (Commander of Second Army) Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia (Commander of Third Army)	Archduke Friedrich (Supreme Commander of the Austro-Hungarian Army) Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (Chief of the General Staff) Archduke Eugen of Austria-Teschen (Commander of Southwest Front) Svetozar Boroević von Bojna (Commander of Fifth Army) Franz Rohr von Denta (Commander of Tenth Army) Gustav Globočnik Edler von Vojka (Commander of Group Globočnik in Tenth Army)
Strength
286 battalions (plus 90 in reserve) 1,360 guns	100 battalions (plus 30 in reserve) 470 guns
Casualties and losses
1,882 killed, wounded and missing	1,985 killed and wounded

The Fifth Battle of the Isonzo was fought from March 9–15, 1916 between the armies of the Kingdom of Italy and those of Austria-Hungary. The Italians had decided to launch another offensive on the Soča (Isonzo) River.