A Guide to the Military History of the World War, 1914-1918
A Guide to the Military History of the World War, 1914-1918
Thomas Goddard Frothingham
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The Austrian armies were also hungry and dis- affected ; their morale was gone ; and they were ready to break at the first assault. On October 24 the Italians attacked between the Brenta and the Piave and along the lower Piave. The result was never at any time i^ doubt. All along the line the Austrians gave way Digitized by VjOOQ IC The Final Campaigns 277 in a retreat that soon became a rout. There was not a trace left of the formidable armies that had defeated the Italians and held their own ...so long in Venetia. The invaders were captured in droves» and the Austrian armies were destroyed in a few days. There remained nothing but a mob of struggling fugitives, a great part of whom were captured. Their guns and equip- ment had been abandoned to the Italians. At this time all Austria-Himgary was in revolution, and the Emperor gave orders to form a '^liquidation ministry" to transfer the power of government from the Empire to the various States, and at the same time instructions were given to make a surrender to the Entente Allies.
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