Battle of Vittorio Veneto

Battle of Vittorio Veneto
	Part of the Italian Front of World War I
	; Map of the battle
Date	24 October – 4 November 1918
Location	Vittorio, Kingdom of Italy45°57′21″N 12°20′49″E / 45.95583°N 12.34694°E
Result	Italian victory Collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire;
Belligerents
Italy ; United Kingdom ; France ; United States	Austria-Hungary
Commanders and leaders
Armando Diaz	Svetozar Boroević; AD. Joseph August; Alexander von Krobatin
Strength
56 divisions 51 divisions; 3 divisions; 2 divisions; 1 regiment; 900 aircraft; 7,700 artillery pieces; ;	55 divisions; 6,145 artillery pieces
Casualties and losses
40,917 38,000 7,000 killed; 23,000 wounded; 8,000 missing and captured; ; 2,139; 778; 8; ;	528,000 30,000 killed; 50,000 wounded; 448,000 captured; 5,000+ artillery pieces captured; ;

The Battle of Vittorio Veneto was fought from 24 October to 3 November 1918 (with an armistice taking effect 24 hours later) near Vittorio Veneto on the Italian Front during World War I. After having thoroughly defeated Austro-Hungarian troops during the defensive Battle of the Piave River, the Royal Italian Army launched a great counter-offensive: the Italian victory marked the end of the war on the Italian Front, secured the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and contributed to the end of the First World War just one week later. The battle led to the capture of over 5,000 artillery pieces and 448,000 Austro-Hungarian troops, including Germans, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Slovenes, Croatians, Poles, Romanians, Ukrainians, and also a small number of Austro-Hungarian Italians.