Battle of Monte Corno
| Battle of Monte Corno | |||||||||
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| Part of White War of Italian Front of the World War I | |||||||||
The capture of Battisti and Filzi in a painting by Hans Bertle | |||||||||
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| Kingdom of Italy | Austria–Hungary | ||||||||
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Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Pietro Badoglio Luigi Casonato † Cesare Battisti (POW) Fabio Filzi (POW) Nazario Sauro (POW) | Bruno Franceschini | ||||||||
The Battle of Monte Corno was a series of war events of the First World War on the mountain then known as Corno di Vallarsa, a peak of the Pasubio massif, in the Vicenza Prealps group . The mountain was the scene of two of the most famous actions of the conflict: the capture of Cesare Battisti and Fabio Filzi and the conquest of the mountain itself. After the war events the mountain was renamed Monte Corno Battisti. For the war actions that took place between 1916 and 1918 on Monte Corno, four of the twelve gold medals for military valor awarded to fighters of Pasubio were awarded and mentioned with a special plaque on the Road of Heroes.