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Marshal of Italy (Italian: Maresciallo d'Italia) was a rank in the Royal Italian Army (Regio Esercito). Originally created in 1924 by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini for the purpose of honoring generals Luigi Cadorna and Armando Diaz, the rank was granted to several other general
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Luigi Cadorna was born to General Raffaele Cadorna in Verbania Pallanza, Piedmont in 1850. In 1860 Cadorna became a student at the "Teuliè" Military School in Milan. At fifteen he entered the Turin Military Academy. Upon graduation, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant of artillery in 1868. In 1870, as an officer in the 2nd Regiment of Artill...
Cadorna inherited a difficult political and military situation. The government of Premier Antonio Salandra favoured initial neutrality over Italy's treaty commitments under the Triple Alliance. Cadorna was accordingly obliged to reverse long-established strategic plans while discovering that the army was ill-prepared for war against Austria-Hungary...
After the war, the Italian government held an inquiry to investigate the defeat at Caporetto. It was published in 1919 and was highly critical of Cadorna, at that time a bitter man busy with writing his own memoirs. Cadorna claimed that he had no responsibility for the defeat, despite fleeing to Padua during the battle and abandoning the entire Ita...
Several historians record Cadorna as an unimaginative martinet who was ruthless with his troops and dismissive of his country's political authorities. David Stevenson, Professor of International History at the London School of Economics, describes him as earning "opprobrium as one of the most callous and incompetent of First World War commanders." ...
He was the father of Raffaele Cadorna Jr., an Italian general who fought during World War I and World War II, and was famous as one of the commanders of the Italian Resistance against German occupying forces in north Italy after 1943.
Other Sources
1. Keegan, John (1999). The First World War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-375-40052-4. 2. Marshall, S. L. A.; Josephy, Alvin M. (1982). The American heritage history of World War I. American Heritage Pub. Co. : Bonanza Books : Distributed by Crown Publishers. ISBN 9780517385555. OCLC 1028047398.
Works by or about Luigi Cadorna at Internet ArchiveNewspaper clippings about Luigi Cadorna in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBWAnna Grillini: Cadorna, Luigi, in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War.Italy. Marshal of Italy; Marshal (Italy) – a warrant officer rank; Marshal of the Mongolian People's Republic; Marshal of Peru; Marshal of Poland; Marshal (Portugal) Mareșal (Romania) Russia. Marshal of the Russian Federation; Marshal of the Soviet Union
Pietro Badoglio, 1st Duke of Addis Abeba, 1st Marquess of Sabotino (US: / b ə ˈ d oʊ l j oʊ / bə-DOH-lyoh, Italian: [ˈpjɛːtro baˈdɔʎʎo]; 28 September 1871 – 1 November 1956), was an Italian general during both World Wars and the first viceroy of Italian East Africa.
First Marshal of the Empire (Italian: Primo Maresciallo dell'Impero) was a military rank established by the Italian Parliament on March 30, 1938. The highest rank in the Italian military , it was only granted to King Victor Emmanuel III and Duce Benito Mussolini .
Pietro Badoglio in Uniform. Signatur 1929. Pietro Badoglio, Markgraf von Sabotino und Herzog von Addis Abeba (* 28. September 1871 in Grazzano Monferrato, Piemont; † 1. November 1956 ebenda) war ein italienischer Heeresoffizier (zuletzt Marschall) und Politiker.
