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White Friday was a series of avalanches on the Italian front of World War I. The most significant avalanche struck the Austro-Hungarian barracks on Mount Marmolada , killing 270 soldiers. Other avalanches on the same day would strike Italian and other Austro-Hungarian positions, killing hundreds.
Beginning on the 13th, later referred to as White Friday, December 1916 would see 10,000 soldiers on both sides killed by avalanches in the Dolomites. [31] Numerous avalanches were caused by the Italians and Austro-Hungarians purposefully firing artillery shells on the mountainside, while others were naturally caused.
Prime Minister Antonio Salandra, Field Marshal Luigi Cadorna and ambassador Tommaso Tittoni at a conference of the Allied Powers on 27–28 March 1916 in Paris. Italy entered World War I in May 1915, declaring war on Austria-Hungary. The Royal Italian Army stands under command of Chief of Staff and Field Marshall Luigi Cadorna.
Austro-Hungarian trench at the peak of Ortler, the highest trench in the First World War (3850m). The White War (Italian: Guerra Bianca, German: Gebirgskrieg, Hungarian: Fehér Háború) [2] [3] is the name given to the fighting in the high-altitude Alpine sector of the Italian front during the First World War, principally in the Dolomites, the Ortles-Cevedale Alps and the Adamello-Presanella ...
White Friday (1916) [2] Italy: 1916: 3 4,000: Huascarán avalanche [1] Peru: 1962: 4 310: 2015 Afghanistan avalanches: Afghanistan: 2015: 5 265: Winter of Terror; series of 649 avalanches: Austria-Switzerland-Italy: 1951: 6 201 (56 confirmed, 145 presumed dead) 2012 Afghanistan avalanches [3] Afghanistan: 2012: 7 200: Lahaul Valley avalanche [4 ...
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