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One day after the French declaration of war against Austria-Hungary on 11 August, a French fleet under Admiral Augustin Boué de Lapeyrère arrived at Malta. He had orders to sail with all available French and British ships, pass into the Adriatic Sea, and undertake whatever operations he thought best against Austrian ports.
The commission, which was established on the basis of the decision of the Allied Naval Council of the Supreme War Council on 5 November 1918, [14] first met in Rijeka but was later moved to Venice and Rome. [15] The Adriatic Commission agreed on zones of occupation of the eastern Adriatic shores.
During the war, both the Italian Royal Navy and the Austro-Hungarian Navy kept their most modern capital ships inside their bases (Pola and Cattaro for the Austrian Fleet, Brindisi and Taranto for the Italian fleet), leaving mostly submarines, destroyers, torpedo boats and scout cruisers to do any fighting. [1] The so-called Adriatic Campaign ...
The Adriatic Sea (/ ˌ eɪ d r i ˈ æ t ɪ k /) is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan Peninsula.The Adriatic is the northernmost arm of the Mediterranean Sea, extending from the Strait of Otranto (where it connects to the Ionian Sea) to the northwest and the Po Valley.
During World War I, the strait was of strategic significance. The Allied navies of Italy , France , and Great Britain , by blockading the strait, mostly with light naval forces and lightly armed fishing vessels known as drifters , hindered the cautious Austro-Hungarian Navy from freely entering the Mediterranean Sea , and effectively kept them ...
At the outbreak of World War I, with Italy's decision to remain neutral, the naval strength of the Central Powers was represented by the navy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the KuK Kriegsmarine, whose only access to the sea was through the Adriatic coast.
Map of the province of Ancona. The Bombardment of Ancona was a naval engagement of the Adriatic Campaign of World War I between the navies of Italy and Austria-Hungary.Forces of the Imperial and Royal Navy attacked and bombarded military and civilian targets all across Ancona in central Italy and several other nearby islands and communities in response to Italy's declaration of war on Austria ...
The Adriatic Sea. Durazzo is located on the coast of Albania, known in Albanian as Durrës. From 15 to 29 September 1918, French General Louis Franchet d'Espèrey in command of a large allied army, campaigned in Macedonia. The offensive was a victory and ended with Bulgaria's surrender. Fearing the remaining enemies would fall back on the ...