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Fourth Battle of the Isonzo

Battle in 1915 on the Italian Front during the First World War

Field	Value
conflict	Fourth Battle of the Isonzo
partof	the Italian Front
(World War I)
image	Italian Front 1915-1917.jpg
image_size	300px
caption	Eleven Battles of the Isonzo
June 1915 – September 1917
date	10 November – 2 December 1915
place	Soča/Isonzo river, western Slovenia
result	Italian victory
* Italian offensive suspended<ref>{{cite book	last1	Tommasi	first1=Giuseppe	title=Brigata Sassari. Note di guerra	date=1925	publisher=Tipografia sociale	location=Rome	page=58	url=http://www.sardegnadigitallibrary.it/mmt/fullsize/2009050512590300085.pdf	access-date=2020-02-11	archive-date=2020-10-29	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029175254/http://www.sardegnadigitallibrary.it/mmt/fullsize/2009050512590300085.pdf	url-status=dead }}
combatant1	Kingdom of Italy
combatant2	Austria-Hungary
commander1
commander2
strength1
strength2
casualties1	49,500 (7,500 dead)
casualties2	32,100 (4,000 dead)

(World War I) June 1915 – September 1917

Italian offensive suspended
Conquest of important positions (Mount Calvario, Oslavia)

The Fourth Battle of the Isonzo was fought between the armies of Kingdom of Italy and those of Austria-Hungary on the Italian Front in World War I, between 10 November and 2 December 1915.

Overview

In contrast to the previous three battles of the Isonzo (in June, July and October), this offensive was brief, and is considered a continuation of the third battle of the Isonzo.

Most of the clash was concentrated in the direction of Gorizia and on the Karst Plateau, though the push was distributed on the whole Isonzo front. The Italian Second Army, aiming for the town of Gorizia, was able to capture the hilly area around Oslavia (Oslavje) and San Floriano del Collio (Števerjan) overlooking the Soča (Isonzo) and Gorizia itself. The Italian Third Army, covering the rest of the front up to the sea, launched a series of large attacks which brought no significant gain.

Mount Sei Busi was unsuccessfully attacked by Italians five times.

The intensity of the fighting increased until the end of November, when the bridgehead of Tolmin (Tolmino) was heavily shelled and casualties peaked. In the first fifteen days of December, however, the fighting was reduced to small scale skirmishes as opposed to the massive frontal assaults that characterized the previous phases of the battle.

An unsigned truce on the Karst Plateau was made as the temperatures dropped, and operations were ceased due to lack of supplies.

The Austro-Hungarian High Command, worried by huge losses, requested assistance from the German Empire, which was not yet formally in the war against Italy. German Empire intervened on the Italian Front in eleventh battle of the Isonzo.

References

(1925). "Brigata Sassari. Note di guerra". Tipografia sociale.

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