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Marshal of Italy Luigi Cadorna, OSML, OMS, OCI (4 September 1850 – 21 December 1928) was an Italian general, Marshal of Italy and Count, most famous for being the Chief of Staff of the Italian Army from 1914 until 1917 during World War I.
Luigi Cadorna was a general who completely reorganized Italy’s ill-prepared army on the eve of World War I and who was chief of staff during the first 30 months of that conflict. Cadorna was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Italian army in 1868.
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Luigi Cadorna was a career military man, the son of a major general in the army of Piedmont. He quickly climbed the military hierarchy to become chief of staff of the Italian army from July 1914 until November 1917. Cadorna was known for imposing severe discipline among his troops.
Luigi Cadorna (1850-1928) served as Italy's Chief of Staff from the outbreak of the war in August 1914 until his dismissal in the wake of the Italian army's defeat at Caporetto.
Italian commander Luigi Cadorna, a staunch proponent of the frontal assault who claimed the Western Front proved the ineffectiveness of machine guns, initially planned breaking onto the Slovenian plateau, taking Ljubljana and threatening Vienna.
Luigi Cadorna was a career military man, the son of a major general in the army of Piedmont. He quickly climbed the military hierarchy to become chief of staff of the Italian army from July 1914 until November 1917. Cadorna was known for imposing severe discipline among his troops. Table of Contents.
Luigi Cadorna GCB (September 4, 1850, Verbania, Piedmont - December 21, 1928) was an Italian Field Marshal, most famous for being the chief of staff of the Italian army during the first part of World War I.
