| Seventh Battle of the Isonzo | |||||||||
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| Part of the Italian Front (First World War) | |||||||||
 Italian troops with a captured Austrian machine gun | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Kingdom of Italy |
 Austria-Hungary | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Luigi Cadorna (Chief of Staff of the Italian 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) Svetozar Boroević von Bojna (Commander of Fifth Army) | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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240 battalions 1,150 artillery pieces |
150 battalions 770 artillery pieces | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 17,000–21,000 | 20,000[1] | ||||||||
The Seventh Battle of the Isonzo was fought from September 14–17, 1916 between the armies of the Kingdom of Italy and those of Austria-Hungary. It followed the Italian successes during the Trentino Offensive and the Sixth Battle of the Isonzo in the spring of 1916.[2]
- ^ "La Grande Guerra 1914 - 1918".
- ^ Willmott, H.P. (1994). The Historical Atlas of World War I. Swanston Publishing Limited. ISBN 0-8050-2651-7.